CANTEACH

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CANTEACH
a project sponsored byAtomic Energy of Canada
Limited Canadian Nuclear Society Universities
Committee and Canadian Industry Partners Start
Date 2000 March 01
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CANDU Technical Information Requirements

• Operating utilities need continuing education for
  technicians, engineers, and management at all
  levels
• Operating utilities need continuing training and
  retraining for operating staff
• Persons involved in support or regulation of the
  nuclear industry must be given a sound technical
  education and must maintain these skills
• AECL must maintain an all skills education
  package in order to stay in a leadership position
  in the world nuclear power plant market
• Universities and technical colleges must remain
  as the suppliers of all programs aimed at
  formal qualification of staff
• Close cooperation will allow all parts of the
  CANDU nuclear energy management system to benefit
  from better learning

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Education/Training Program for a Nuclear Program
Operators
Operator Group (persons who will be allowed to
manipulate the station controls)
Regulatory Exams
Co-piloting
Nuclear Conventional specific training - by
licensed station staff
SSIT
FOIT
Regulatory Exams
(Shift supervisor in training)
(First operator in training)
Other staff (management, engineering, technical
support , health physics, maintenance, general
technical/scientific), etc..
Nuclear Conventional General training -
contract
Technical training
Pre-training
Education
This Program
Basic knowledge, Power plant experience
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Development Plan

• Plan of action startup--
• George Bereznai to supply Chula course list and
  curriculum
• Bill Garland to set up teaching module matrix
• Cdn. Nuc. Soc. Universities Committee to get
  others to participate
• DAM to incorporate teaching plan into course
  support materials plan (English translation of
  XJTU material - use as reference)
• Canadian expert (AECL) and Chinese expert (XJTU)
  to develop one course each, guided by Garland and
  Bereznai
• Bereznai to finish current CD development and
  present course as requested by AECL market
  leaders
• Bereznai to assist XJTU professors with their
  multimedia project

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CANTEACHan integrated instruction-materials
development program for CANDU
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Foreign University Professor
Canadian University Professor
Cdn. Technical College Instructor
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Student
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Experts (No Cost)
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Program Manager
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CNS Universities Committee
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1. The Student

• Diverse
• technical 4th year engineering/science up to
  shift supervisor level
• managerial industrial utility staff
• government local, national (including
  regulatory), international
• general electricity users
• Involvement from 1 day up to full semester
  periods, depending on customers needs
• The students are funded by their employers, not
  by the program

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2. Canadian University Professor/Technical
College Instructor

• Comprehensive knowledge of CANDU and related
  technologies important to power generation
• First professor selected is W. Garland - broad
  CANDU plus good teaching background. His time
  made available by task substitution on MNR Safety
  Report preparation
• Along with 4 (staff expert) helps to prepare
  course materials for approved course program
• In specific cases, teaching may be done best by
  an instructor from a Canadian Technical College

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3. Foreign University Professor

• Select China as the lead country.
• other possible countries are Korea and Vietnam
• Xian Jiaotong University selected for initial
  collaboration
• existing operator training programs for all
  reactor types
• existing textbook production contract with AECL
• existing multimedia production contract with AECL
• Shanghai Jiaotong University for collaboration
• close to Shanghai office
• associated with TQNPC, SNERDI (Shanghai Nuclear
  Energy Research Design Institute)
• young faculty, one AECL local staff member is an
  adjunct professor at SJTU

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4. Staff Expert

• George Bereznai (AECL staff assigned to Chula
  University) has very broad nuclear experience
  including simulators and operator training,
  knowledge of distance learning methods
• Rayman Sollychin - broad and deep CANDU
  experience, located near the target market,
  Chinese (Putonghua) language capability
• In a position to both prepare and present these
  courses, and to refine their content in
  collaboration with University staff

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5. Program Manager

• Dan Meneley - nuclear science, engineering and
  education background (including Nuclear General,
  AECB staff
• Plan each step of education program, get approval
  of market leaders, get budget from VP MS on
  annual basis. Advise on overall scope
• Work with 2,3, 4, and 6 (All participating
  institutions) to define and execute each step of
  the program

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6. CNS Universities Committee

• To integrate the national education program and
  to seek participation by all interested Canadian
  nuclear engineering and technical college faculty
• To give a second level of review to the course
  material(s)
• To advise on overall project scope and content