Personnel Training, Continuing Training and Advanced Training
About
One of the priority areas of activities of Rosatom Service JSC is training of operating personnel of foreign NPP, who take part in commissioning, operation and maintenance of NPP equipment and systems, as well as personnel who, after training, perform and ensure the process of training and maintaining the qualifications of the foreign customer's own personnel.
The purpose of operational personnel training is to provide them with the proper level of safety culture and competencies to perform commissioning and further NPP operation.
Personnel training shall be conducted taking into consideration the following:
- requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Association of Nuclear Operators;
- best practices of NPP operating personnel training in Russia and abroad;
- level of nuclear infrastructure development in the country of the foreign customer;
- requirements of the foreign customer.
Training of NPP operating personnel is performed ahead of the NPP construction schedule and is completed before the start of operation, maintenance and commissioning of NPP systems.
Training is an important tool for achieving and maintaining the required level of competence of various categories of personnel at all nuclear facilities. High-quality and effective training (and certification) of personnel is necessary to achieve high standards of safety and efficiency of nuclear facilities
The operating organization shall be staffed with competent managers and a sufficient number of qualified employees who are knowledgeable about the technical and administrative requirements for the safety of a nuclear power plant and who are interested in adopting and promoting a safety conscious attitude
Direction elements
Training of the Customer’s operating personnel of NPP construction
- Theoretical and practical training
- On-the-job training at the Reference NPP and customer's NPP
- Pre-license training
- Training in specialized organizations
- Training documentation development
Equipping the training centers of foreign NPP
- Technical Training Aids (simulators, including full-scale and analytical, models and stands)
- Training documentation for independent use by a foreign customer
Technical and methodological support for training
- Development of a training system for personnel of a foreign customer
- Support for the activities of the psychophysiological examination laboratory
- Support for the activities of the foreign customer's instructors
- Ensuring the availability of technical training tools
Systematic approach to training
When training personnel of foreign NPP, Rosatom Service JSC, in accordance with IAEA recommendations (NG-T-2.8, TECDOC-1057 and TECDOC-1170), applies a systematic approach to training (SAT) adapted to the conditions of the NPP under construction (adapted SAT).
- Development of work decomposition structure, quality assurance program, technical requirements for training documentation, job descriptions of NPP personnel job functions
- Establishment of a joint training consultative commission
- Determination of specific job tasks and/or competencies
- Determination of knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform job duties
- Development of training effectiveness evaluation
- Taking a decision on the need to make changes in the training process
Projects
- Stuff number (persons) 1927
- Number of trainees (persons) 1424
- Personnel preparation Under implementation since 2018, completion - 2025. 1050 persons were sent for training, 757 persons received certificates, 131 persons were admitted to work
- TC TMS Revision 1 is developed in the period 2019-2022, Revision 2 is developed after CW
- TC TA FSS and AS, as well as other TA (simulators, mock-ups) have been delivered. Necessary tests of the delivered equipment are successfully performed
- Stuff number (persons) 2716
- Number of trainees (persons) 1311
- Personnel preparation 858 persons have completed various training programs
- TC TMS Training documentation has been developed for training in 2019-2023.
- TC TA FSS and AS are manufactured in 2022. Other training aids – 14 classrooms were equipped in 2021-2022, 7 classrooms were equipped in 2023.
- Stuff number (persons) 3388
- Number of trainees (persons) 1716
- Personnel preparation 2021-2023. - 106 persons started training. Among them: technical (86 persons) and Russian speaking (17 persons).
- TC TMS TC documentation system is harmonized
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TC TA
Agreed:
Distribution of positions by category, location and type of training NPP personnel competencies related to specific NPP equipment Approval of requirements for TA scope and functions
- Stuff number (persons) 1060
- Number of trainees (persons) 435
- Personnel preparation Training of 7 FSS instructors has been started in 2022
- TC TMS Development of requirements and coordination of terms of reference
- TC TA Development of requirements and coordination of terms of reference
Contacts
- Vsevolod Vityazev
- Training Projects Department Director
- Area of responsibility: training of foreign NPP operating personnel
- Aleksey Kulikov
- Project Management Department Head
- Area of responsibility: equipping training centers, technical and methodological support
