The computer aided education and training system for accident management

Under severe accident conditions of a nuclear power plant, plant operators and technical support center(TSC) staffs will be under a amount of stress. Therefore, those individuals responsible for managing the plant should promote their understanding about the accident management and operations. Moreover, it is also important to train in ordinary times, so that they call carry out accident management operations effectively on severe accidents. Therefore, the education and training system which works on personal computers was developed by Japanese, BWR group (Tokyo Electric Power Co.,Inc., Tohoku Electric Power Co.,Inc., Chubu Electric Power Co.,Inc., Hokuriku Electric Power Co.,Inc., Chugoku Electric Power Co.,Inc., Japan Atomic Power Co.,Inc.), and Hitachi, Ltd. The education and training system is composed of two systems. One is computer aided instruction(CAI) education system and the other is education and training system with a computer simulation. Both systems are designed to execute on MS-Windows(R) platform of personal computers. These systems provide plant operators and technical support center staffs with an effective education and training tool for accident management. TEPCO used the simulation system for the emergency exercise assuming the occurrence of hypothetical severe accident, and have performed an effective exercise in March, 2000.