COLUMBIA, Md., Nov. 27, 2001— General Physics Corporation (GP), a wholly owned subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation, was recently awarded a contract to develop classroom training for Control Room ...

Westinghouse has opened a full-sized replica of a control room at a new AP1000 Training Academy in Spain as the company ...

New control room simulators will be used in the training of operators for the AP1000 units currently under construction at Sanmen and Haiyang in China. The first batch of operators is set to qualify ...

On a recent afternoon at Indian Point Energy Center’s training facility, senior reactor operator David Schepperly and his colleagues stood ready to be tested. About a dozen personnel sat in the ...

Skill levels generally differ between plant operator shifts. Further, these differences often cause divides among the shifts that result in unequal divisions of responsibility. Comprehensive, ...

We can argue about what the root causes really are in any catastrophic industrial situation, but the fact remains that human error plays a hugely significant role in ...

The nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants was originally built with analog instrumentation and control systems. Upgrading to a digital system is an important consideration for power producers as dome ...