In fact one of the fellows at the church and I checked out the system for a couple of hours the day before. It was a good thing we did, because it had some missing pieces that we had to provide. It pays to check these things.

The subject (creator) is you… your thought and idea for presentation, because NO one can replace it.

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Some of the operators in the class will be licensed to operate the nuclear power plant; others will be licensed to supervise the operation of the nuclear power plant. The class is about 14 months for the initial licensed reactor operators (ROs) and for those who will be senior reactor operators (SROs) but who have not been previously licensed. The SRO students who are already licensed operators will attend the last 6 to 8 months of the class — it depends on how the class is sequenced due to other plant scheduling conflicts.

The operators must pass a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) written exam and an operating exam which includes dynamic simulator scenarios and job performance examination items — demonstrating to the regulator that the operator has the knowledge and ability to actually operate the plant — in the simulator and in the plant. Depending on the number of candidates, this operating exam may take as much as a full work week.

About four weeks before their NRC exam, they would have gone through a similar exam, called an audit exam, administered by the facility, to demonstrate to their management that they are ready for the NRC exam. The time period between the two exams allows for remediation and re-evaluation prior to the NRC exam.

It’s really hard to explain the difficulty of the program to others who are not familiar with US commercial nuclear. I have had students who had engineering degrees tell me that it was the very hardest training that they had ever gone through. About 4 years ago, one of the students was pulled from the class before the NRC exam because he just couldn’t integrate and process all of the information he needed to as a supervisor in the control room in a casualty situation. He had passed the audit, but the training staff and his management decided that he wasn’t cut out to be a supervisor in the control room. He has two engineering degrees and is one of the sharpest guys that I know. He is now an instructor and sits in the desk that I had and has my old phone number.

I’m pretty familiar with the initial training program. I wrote the original program and course summary for it back in the early 90s, though the program is much older than that and had been run under a different type of document before that and was much more ad hoc in nature.

Since 1989, there has been at least 125 individual NRC license exams given on Unit 1 at Arkansas Nuclear One. There have been 3 failures on the written, none on the operating exam. All were reexamined successfully. Unit 2, which has a separate Operations staff and Ops training staff because the two units are made by different companies and have different systems and operating characteristics, has a similar success record for its license exams.

I’ll be teaching emergency and abnormal operating procedures, severe accident management, mitigating core damage, and other things in the classroom. I’ll also be running the simulator.

The nice thing about working as a contractor at the place I retired is that I get to do the part of the job that I really enjoyed — and very little of the part of the job that made me want to leave!

And that’s probably why I got long-winded on this comment.

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suzen,
I agree, sometimes the end product does change, and that’s all right too. It just means we’re learning from the process. In the case of a speech the important thing is it doesn’t happen while we’re giving it. It does help if the beginning and the end are connected.

Grannymar,
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