This 30 hour course explains the criteria of the Severe Accident Management Guidelines (SAMG) in PWR/ BWR nuclear power plants through seminars and workshops.

Topics include:

• Emergencies

-“Design Basis” scenarios

-Degraded evolution up to “Severe Accident” domain

• Severe Accident Phenomenology

-Hydrogen performance

-Fission products release

-Vessel failure

• Severe Accident Management

-Transition from the Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs)

-General rules concerning to the SAMG use

-Basis for guidelines strategies and calculation aids (CA)

-SAMG exercises

• Examples of activities in the severe accident field

-Training on physical phenomena understanding and accident management

-SAMG development

-SAMG Implementation Programs at PWR/BWR NPPs

• Following the “State of the Art” under international framework

-CSNI Working Group on Accident Analysis and Management (GAMA)