• AP1000 training centre opened in Madrid ahead of European fleet The control room simulator allows training of future control room operators in an environment exactly matching the control room they would find themselves in at an AP1000 unit • Training can cover all plant procedures from startup to shutdown, as well as simulating malfunctions or component failures • It also allows certification of operators and system development and testing • Luca Oriani, who is President of APX at Westinghouse Electric, the global head of its new reactor business, speaking toWorld Nuclear Newsat the new academy, explained that the training of control room operators begins about five years before a plant goes online • “It’s because it is not just the time it takes to train one operator; you need to train enough operators for the plant to run 24 hours a day, every day, every year, so you need a very deep pool of qualified operators • " Luca Oriani outlining the aims of the training process (Image: Westinghouse) Once new AP1000 units are built, each will have its own replica control room for training purposes, but the plan is for the Spanish training centre to continue to be the Europe-wide centre for train

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  • The control room simulator allows training of future control room operators in an environment exactly matching the control room they would find themselves in at an AP1000 unit. Training can cover all plant procedures from startup to shutdown, as well as simulating malfunctions or component failures. It also allows certification of operators and system development and testing. Luca Oriani, who is President of APX at Westinghouse Electric, the global head of its new reactor business, speaking to World Nuclear News at the new academy, explained that the training of control room operators begins a

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