The course emphasizes nuclear engineering support for control room operations (there will be a significant amount of time spent in the simulator).
Course Schedule:
- Fuel Design and Analysis.
- Introduction to Technical Specifications and Core Operating Limits Report.
- Reactivity Control Technical Specifications.
- Power Distribution Technical Specifications.
- Incore Power Distribution Measurement Technology and Process.
- Reload Safety Analysis.
- Plant Support Calculations.
- Fuel Performance Operational Limits. Fuel Performance Evaluation.
- Reload Core Design Process.
- Estimated Critical Condition (ECC) and Shutdown Margin (SDM) Calculations.
- Inverse Count Rate Ratio (ICRR) Plotting.
- Reactivity Plan Development Exercise.
- Computerized Core Monitoring Systems.
- Core Load and Pre-Critical Testing.
- Low-Power Physics Testing.
- Fuel Inspection and Repair.
- Fuel Handling Equipment Operations.
- Refueling Operations.
- Reactivity Computer.
- Control Room Operations – Controlled Approach to Criticality Control Room Operations – Reactivity Control during Load Transients.
- Startup Testing Program.
- Power Ascension Testing.
- Computerized Core Monitoring Systems.
- BEACON™ Core Monitoring System.
- Reactor Engineering.
- Odds and Ends.
- Core Control During Operations.
