Comprehensive, performance-based training and qualification programs can close the skill level gaps, ensuring high-level performance across every shift.

Faced with the necessity of doing more with less—and less-experienced—staff, the power business increasingly is turning to simulators for reliable and efficient real-world training.

The Hualong One full-scope simulator at the Fuqing plant (Image: CNNC) Simulators are a vital piece of equipment for training plant operators, both at the start of their careers and for their ...

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With the first new nuclear build in decades under way in the US, a new generation of operators is being trained to run first-of-their-kind power plants built for the digital age.

Each shift has three operators and two senior reactor operators. Operators must be high school graduates who have received extensive training in nuclear power plant operations.

According to plant Communications Manager Bill Schalk, the new additions will make ongoing training of plant reactor staff more efficient. “Primarily a simulator is used to train reactor operators.