Fully operational training center of Belarusian nuclear power plant in early 2016

The training and education center of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is supposed to become fully operational in early 2016. The statement was made by Eduard Svirid, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant, during the online conference hosted by the BelTA website on 1 December.

According to Eduard Svirid, the training and education center of the Belarusian nuclear power plant will be opened soon. “I expect that it will become fully operational at the beginning of the next year,” said the specialist.

Very serious, important, and expensive equipment is being installed in the center now. Eduard Svirid noted that a mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency visited the Belarusian nuclear power plant a short while ago for the sake of testing a full-scale simulator of the power plant.

The personnel training system of the Belarusian nuclear power plant is highly prioritized as a safety and security factor. “At present our specialists are going through on-the-job training at existing nuclear power plants abroad, including in similar training centers. Once ours is commissioned, they will be able to hone their nuclear power plant operation skills using the full-scale simulator. It will help prevent errors in the future,” stressed the Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the state enterprise Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant.

The Belarusian nuclear power plant is supposed to get an education and training center of its own several years before the power plant goes online. Eduard Svirid said that the training center’s full-scale simulator will be a 100% replica of the real nuclear power plant’s control desk. “It means that the top of the table will be the same color, the chairs will be the same, the phone will be exactly where it is on the live control desk. Even the ceiling should be exactly the way it is in the live nuclear power plant in order to let people feel as if they were at their workstations. If some button of the live control desk is designed to flash a different color as part of a repair process, the same button will act accordingly in the full-scale simulator,” explained the specialist.