ANSI/ANS-3.1, "Selection, Qualification and Training of Personnel for Nuclear Power Plants" requires that for some plant job positions, the individual must hold, or have held a senior reactor operator NRC license, or possess equivalent knowledge to that of an SRO. Like many nuclear utilities, Exelon Nuclear manages this requirement though the implementation of procedure TQ-AA-128, "ANSI-3.1 SRO Certification for Management". In years past, this course was provided by the company once per year, and it was conducted at a host station. Class enrolment was limited, and the host station would receive the majority of the seats in the class. Students from the non-host station would incur travel costs that in today's economic environment, challenge travel budgets at our nuclear facilities. As part of a company focus on career mapping, diversity & inclusion, and innovation & technology, Exelon nuclear training determined to pilot a new method of implementing the ANSI-3.1 SRO Certification for Management course. By investing and leveraging in new technology, Exelon conducted an ANSI-3.1 SRO Management Certification class using distance learning enabled rooms at each of our site locations throughout the company for the past three years. For the simulator portion of the course, students report to a selected plant-referenced simulator based on the plant design that was chosen for the class. Exelon conducts one class per year between our station outage windows and alternates the selected design between BWR and PWR designs. This has enabled Exelon Nuclear to essentially triple the number of students in each class, while at the same time, reducing student travel and lodging costs by a considerable margin. Finally, by increasing the number of students, Exelon Nuclear realizes a swifter, more efficient method of providing training prerequisites to the future leaders of the company.
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