Meeting the Training and Education Challenge

摘要

This autumn is shaping up as a busy one for many of North America's nuclear power plants. Almost three dozen refueling outages are scheduled for the fall, along with three steam generator and one reactor head replacement. The industry also must implement a personnel fatigue rule by October 1, which may require additional staffing. And significant upgrade projects are underway at Canadian and European nuclear facilities.rnFor radiation specialists, many of whom work during nuclear power plant outages, all of this represents good news. "We're looking at 200 to 300 people; that's huge," said Jerry Hiatt, chief technical officer and certified health physicist with Bartlett Nuclear, which provides supplemental staffing for nuclear outages. But radiation staffing resources are also largely maxed out, meaning as many as 50 positions could go unfilled.