Reactor Island: Physics and Equipment of primary circuit for Engineers

Training Modules 

1. Entry briefing 

2. The design of the reactor unit and NPP main equipment plant 

   2.1 The visit to Balakovo NPP. Route-1 

   2.2 The visit to Balakovo NPP. Route-2 

3. Measuring parameters of the reactor island 

   3.1 Technical tools for measuring key process parameters (pressure, flow, level, temperature) 

   3.2 Safety systems controllers 

   3.3 The visit to Balakovo NPP. Route-3 

4. Emergency protection and alarm system formation. Reactor unit management 

   4.1 The appointment, device, operating principles, maintenance and repair of the neutron flux control equipment, emergency protection, alarm systems, accelerated unit unloading, and their specific faults 

   4.2 The visit to Balakovo NPP. Route-4 

   4.3 The appointment, device, operating principles, maintenance and repair of the power limit regulator, the automatic power regulator, group and individual management system, the search for specific faults. Maintain the accuracy of neutron power at 100% and 104% of N. The operational principle of electromagnetic step actuator of control and protection system 

   4.4 The visit to Balakovo NPP. Route-5 

5. Operational modes of the reactor unit 

   5.1 Training on simulators “Reactor unit start-up, the output of the reactor unit (RU) at the minimum controlled power level, power level change, power unit unloading, turbo generator shutdown and the shift of reactor unit into a hot state” 

   5.2 Training on simulators “Beyond design basis accident” 

   5.3 Training on simulators “Violation of the conditions of normal operation, the leaks of the primary circuit coolant, compensated by a makeup-purge system of the primary circuit”

   5.4 Training on simulators “Violation of the conditions of normal operation, shutdown of all makeup units”

   5.5 Training on simulators “Violation of the conditions of normal operation. Opening and unclosing of one of BRU-A valves” 

   5.6 Training on simulators “The cool down of the power unit from the emergency control room” 

6. Chemical technology of the primary circuit 

   6.1 Norms of water chemistry of the primary circuit, chemicals dosing in the process of maintaining water chemistry of the primary circuit, the appointment of special water purification system 

   6.2 The visit to Balakovo NPP. Route-6 

7. Reactor physics 

   7.1 Reactor physics. Introduction 

   7.2 The Next Generation Nuclear Plants 

   7.3 Kinetics 

   7.4 Principal physics of non-proliferation 

8. Final test 100 h total (43 h of lectures + 57 h of hands-on sessions)