The course is a 5-day face-to-face foundations class for engineers entering the nuclear fuel industry in our Westinghouse Foundations Qualification Training program. It provides an excellent opportunity for professionals new to the industry to network with other engineers from Westinghouse facilities in the US and Sweden, other US utilities, and industry experts.

This course is hybrid and includes roughly 5 days of online learning followed by 5 days of in person discussion, instructor-based training and 3 tours. Technical experts instruct and a broad overview of the Westinghouse PWR and BWR nuclear design processes is provided.

Tours:

• Waltz Mill - Outage Control Center
• Blairsville - Specialty Metals Plant
• AP1000 Simulator

• Nuclear Safety Culture
• Defense in Depth / Acceptance Criteria
• PWR Systems Overview
• PWR Reload Process / Internal Interfaces
• PWR Fuel Overview
• Reactivity Management Performance Indicator
• PWR ND Design Codes
• PWR Thermal/Hydraulic Design
• PWR Fuel Rod Design
• Criticality Overview
• PWR Non-LOCA Analysis
• PWR LOCA Analysis
• PWR CRA Analysis
• Reactor Theory
• Peaking Factors
• PWR Fuel Management
• PWR Fuel Economics
• Setpoints Overview
• Fuel Design Overview
• Fuel Performance and Monitoring Overview
• Licensing Requirements and Process
• US Regulatory Overview
• Non-US Regulatory Overview
• US Customer Overview
• Reload Project Management Overview
• Software Development Process Overview
• AP1000 Overview
• PWR Non-9272 Combustion Engineering
• BWR Systems Overview
• BWR Fuel Overview
• BWR Design Codes & Internal Interfaces
• BEACON Core Monitoring System Overview
• ATF, ADOPT Overview