The SNE Refresher course is an intensive program. Each topic is taught by a subject matter expert — a Westinghouse SRO-certified training engineer or an experienced engineer from one of the various Westinghouse divisions.
Applicable to: PWR.
Course Schedule:
- Fuel Rod Design: summarizes the functional and performance requirements of the fuel rods, the conditions for designing and the fuel rod design criteria.
- Fuel Performance: explains power ramp rate limits, the bases governing them and techniques for better fuel performance.
- Coolant Activity: describes the various sources of fission product activity and methods to determine how and where failure has occurred.
- Fuel Management: details the theory behind various loading patterns and discusses associated computer codes and reload safety analysis; also discusses recent advances such as optimized fuel assemblies, wet annular burnable absorbers, low-leakage loading pattern, relaxed axial offset control, and the 24-month cycle.
- Core Control and Load Follow: focuses on solutions to loadfollow problems, xenon oscillation control, and reduced-temperature operations.
- Power Distribution Technical Specifications: covers the limits and their bases; discusses plant- specific problems.
