The Station Nuclear Engineer Refresher (SNE) course provides advanced and refresher training for experienced reactor engineers in the areas of applied theory, fuel performance, core control, and recent events and advances.

The SNE Refresher course is an intensive program. Each topic is taught by a subject matter expert — a Westinghouse SRO-certified training engineer or an experienced engineer from one of the various Westinghouse divisions.

Fuel Rod Design: summarizes the functional and performance requirements of the fuel rods, the conditions for designing and the fuel rod design criteria

Fuel Performance:  explains power ramp rate limits, the bases governing them and techniques for better fuel performance

Coolant Activity: describes the various sources of fission product activity and methods to determine how and where failure has occurred

Fuel Management: details the theory behind various loading patterns and discusses associated computer codes and reload safety analysis; also discusses recent advances such as optimized fuel assemblies, wet annular burnable absorbers, low-leakage loading pattern, relaxed axial offset control, and the 24-month cycle

Core Control and Load Follow: focuses on solutions to loadfollow problems, xenon oscillation control, and reduced-temperature operations

Power Distribution Technical Specifications: covers the limits and their bases; discusses plant- specific problems

Applicable to: PWR