The next class is tentatively scheduled for August 2027 in Columbia, SC

 Westinghouse offers the comprehensive and detailed FAIN100 Fuel Mechanical Design face-to-face training course to its customers over a 4 day period to help communicate the details of our state-of-the-art fuel designs, including associated design, development and testing that support our ever-changing advanced fuel designs. This training course provides an up-to-date source of detailed mechanical design information for the various Westinghouse fuel assembly designs with a focus on the Westinghouse NSSS PWR design. Other designs such as the CE, VVER and BWR fuel assembly designs are also covered to a lesser extent. By providing this detailed training, numerous benefits are achieved, including but not limited to the promotion of an in-depth understanding of the different Westinghouse fuel designs, including the processes used to develop new and improved fuel products as well as face-to-face interactions allowing the customers to ask detailed questions promoting their understanding of the Westinghouse fuel designs.

 This comprehensive training course covers a wide range of areas including the historical evolution of the Westinghouse fuel assembly designs, details on the mechanical design of current Westinghouse fuel assembly designs, including the 14x14 to the 17x17 RFA-2 and 17x17 OFA fuel designs, as well as rod cluster control assemblies (RCCAs) and other core components, such as thimble plugging devices and Wet Annular Burnable Absorbers (WABAs).

 The training course also covers the associated mechanical and thermal-hydraulic testing used to develop and define fuel assembly properties, such as loss coefficients, fuel assembly dynamic properties, and grid crush values for use in Seismic/LOCA analyses. Specific computer codes used for the mechanical design analyses, including the fuel assembly seismic and LOCA design analyses are also covered. Lastly, the training covers details on the design and testing of shipping containers used to transport the fuel and core components to plants around the world. Lastly, depending on interest, a tour of the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility is also conducted. 

 A summary of the training is provided below.