Spain

5.19.1. Description of the methodological process employed in Spain

In 1985 Spain begun using SAT methodology based upon the decision of the Almaraz nuclear power plant organization, a power plant of PWR-W design, 3 loops, to develop the specific design process of the training of its nuclear power plant personnel in the way being done in that time in USA.

The company assigned to accomplish the process was Tecnatom, S.A.3 and the methodology selected, TSD "Training system development" of INPO, was adapted to the technical and associated — occupational Spanish environment and specifically for Almaraz nuclear power plant (CNA).

Around 1995 the process developed in Almaraz nuclear power plant was considered finished for 23 job positions of this power plant, related to the areas of: licensed operations, operation without license auxiliaries, radiological protection and chemistry and radiochemistry.

The accomplishment of the SAT methodology project developed in Almaraz nuclear power plant gave Tecnatom, S.A., a wide experience in the SAT process, something which permitted it to analyse the application of the TSD process to all areas and organizations related or not to the electrical generation. From all this the redesign of the process was done, elaborating three methodological analysis options that covered all possible situations in which the process could be performed. These three options were designated as: complete, (similar to that known as TSD and applied in Almaraz nuclear power plant (CNA), simplified and correlation.

In order to make a comparison with the analysis methods proposed in the review of the earlier IAEA Guidebook on Training to Establish and Maintain the Qualification and Competence of Nuclear Power Plant Operations Personnel (IAEA-TECDOC-525), and current IAEA Guidebook on Nuclear Power Plant Personnel Training and its Evaluation (Technical Reports Series No. 380), the correspondence between the methodological analysis options of this guidebook and of Tecnatom can be established, as:

• JTA corresponds to the complete option

• JTA/JCA corresponds to the simplified option

3 Tecnatom, S.A. is a company for training, engineering and inspection services for nuclear, thermal and hydro power plants which generate electrical power.

• JCA corresponds to the correlation option.

It should be emphasized that the process developed in the project for application of the SAT methodology at Almaraz nuclear power plant was informally inspected on three occasions by INPO technicians, who issued favorable reports on the results obtained and on the contribution in favor of the basic methodology, TSD

Finally, related to this description of the process earned out in Spam, it is necessary to emphasize that it was continuously being applied in different organizations, obtaining through this experience a flexible view of the methodology At the beginning of each project, the initial selection of the most suitable option, is then adapted to the environment in which the designer works, carrying out in some cases a new separate option from the basic one initially proposed.

In addition to all of the above, the UNESA organization, that supports all the Spanish electric companies, it has accomplished a guide, UNESA CEX-37 "Qualification, Theoretical and Practical Training and Experience for Nuclear Power Plant Personnel", tn which it recommended the use of the SAT methodology to define the training plan of job position groups as follows :

• Turbine operator

• Field operator

• Radiological protection monitors

• Chemical analysts

• Instrumentation and control

• Electrical technical personnel

• Mechanical technical personnel

• Intermediate command chiefs.

In fact, this guide uses as references those qualification guides of INPO and the ANSI-3 1/87 which are clearly related to the SAT methodology

5.19.2. The situation of Spanish regulatory organization

The guide of the Spanish regulatory organization, Nuclear Security Council (CSN), related to training of production personnel of nuclear power plants applies only to licensed control room personnel. There are no training guides issued that apply to the rest of the job groups Nevertheless, in the provisional operation permits of nuclear power plants and in the training aspects, it is stated that m the absence of Spanish regulation, the regulations existing in the design country of the power plant, m the Spanish case USA and Germany, are to be applied.

During all the development of the methodological SAT process in Almaraz nuclear power plant, the Spanish CSN has been kept informed of its development and CSN has paid technical visits to the power plant to evaluate the progress and application of SAT

Currently, the Spanish CSN recommends the use of the SAT methodology not only for licensed personnel, but also for non-licensed personnel of the Spanish nuclear power plants.

5.19.3. Experience obtained in Spain in the application of the SAT methodology

At Almaraz nuclear power plant the training process based on the SAT methodology project has been earned out for several years, fundamentally related to the retraining and requahfication of the

production personnel, since the Spanish nuclear "breakdown " put a hold on obtaining new licenses and the incorporating new personnel into the nuclear power plants.

Related to this above-mentioned application the following fundamental aspects are to be emphasize

• The flexibility of the database used to establish and implement the needs of annual retraining, in a tasks database, containing data related to prioritized parameters (frequency, importance and difficulty), design modifications, foreign and the plant's operating experiences, organizational adjustments, etc.

• The capacity of the training personnel to accomplish the quality control of the training through the use of the database with relation to the definition of the training needs, its implementation and the control of its results.

• The quickness of response of training to urgent and emerging requirements, based on the use of the database, together with the ERT document (evaluation of the yield by task), which permits the training to be done task-by-task and on an individual basis.

• The usefulness of the OJT document, grouped in relation to the plant systems, allows the maintenance of the specific knowledge of each group with relation to the lay-out of the plant.

• Self-study through the above-mentioned documents and the ERT, OJT and videos related to these.

• The review of the documentation developed through the use of the data-base prior to obtaining information related to design organization modifications, as well as operating experiences.

From the perspective of the process developed in Almaraz nuclear power plant and of the experience gained in its development, and application, Tecnatom, S.A. has developed applied SAT, with its different options based on detailed analysis of the initial situation in each case, in vanous Spanish nuclear power plants of different types: PWR-W, PWR-KVW and BWR-GE. SAT has been applied for the training of:

• Field operators in Tnllo nuclear power plant (PWR-KVU). Using the JCA option.

• Mechanical technician maintenance, electrical and I&C; engineering; radiological protection;

chemistry and radiochemistry; field operators in Cofrentes nuclear power plant (BWR-GE); in process at present, using the JCA option.

• Control room licensed personnel, including turbine operator, for Cofrentes nuclear power plant (BWR-GE); m process at present. Using the JTA option.

• Control room licensed personnel, including turbine operator, for Asco nuclear power plant.

• (PWR - W); process to begin within year 1997. Using the JTA & JCA option and as reference the process developed m Almaraz nuclear power plant (PWR -W).

• I&C maintenance technicians of Tnllo nuclear power plant (PWR-KWU); process to begin within year 1997. Using the JCA option

In addition, it is foreseen to widen the demand of accomplishing the SAT application to all the Spanish nuclear power plants and in all its areas of development during the next years.

In addition to this Tecnatom, S.A. has applied the SAT methodology, in its JCA option, to all the production positions of fossil power plants (coal, fuel and gas) and hydraulic plants of Iberdrola company, designing for all of them the training plans for operation, maintenance, engineering, technical

support personnel. The application of the methodological SAT process in this case has been motivated fundamentally by the change of the new European generation environment, transportation and electrical energy distribution, that in view of the emerging competition requires greater emphasis in the competencies and many-sided capabilities of the workers.

Finally, the JCA option has been applied in a engineering services company, Tecnatom, S A., for all the personnel groups responsible for the tasks of: training in electrical generation and human factors, operation engineering, in-service inspection, maintenance, I&D, etc.

5.19.4. Maintenance of the training programmes obtained with SAT methodology

The basic information of all the methodological SAT process developed in Spain by Tecnatom, S.A it is entered into the database that serves to transact the formative design as well as to control from the aspects: technical, quality, pedagogical and associate: occupational the training requirements that establish the competencies of each worker.

The sources that permit maintaining this database are:

• Parametnzanon of evaluation of the task/activities according to importance, difficulty, frequency

• Design modification and procedures

• Organizational modifications

• Plant's own operating experiences

• Foreign operating experiences

• Requirements of the regulatory body

• Recommendations of systems and component manufacturers

• Information from personnel and of their supervisors

• Audit reports of the preceding year's training

• Other

All this is handled by a technician of the organization, who knows the database and how it was developed, and who introduces the necessary information in the database. This generates information to:

• Accomplish training actions for annual individual requalificanon

• Accomplish urgent and emerging training actions, in groups or individually

• Accomplish modifications in the training programmes

• Accomplish modifications in the documents and means of training such as"

- Documentation - ERT

- OJT - Videos

• Accomplish training of instructors, etc