Assessment of Training Effectiveness - A Trainer's Perspective

Abstract

The Fuel Cooling course provides Nuclear Operations trainees with the supporting science fundamentals that form a basis for the Critical Safety Parameters Refresher Training program. The course material builds knowledge logically starting with thermalhydraulic principles and proceeding towards an understanding of the feedback effects associated with severe fuel cooling upsets. The course training methods follow a "Know, Show, Do, and Review" approach whereby knowledge built in classroom lectures and discussions is reinforced with practical simulator exercises. These exercises provide a valuable opportunity for the trainees to understand the fuel cooling processes that could occur during severe plant upsets. The simulator exercises are integrated with the classroom lectures such that each important section is followed by an associated simulator exercise. The simulator Instructor Facility provides a key role in assimilating the detailed fuel cooling transient data with the Control Room panel displays and alarms associated with the actual Point Lepreau GS Control Room.