Training Facilities
ENEC has state-of-the-art training facilities and a robust certification program, and cooperates with nuclear operators around the world to ensure the implementation of the highest national and international standards of quality and safety in the operation of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant.
At the Barakah plant, ENEC has highly advanced training facilities, including two fill-scope APR1400 simulators. These sophisticated simulators replicate the exact conditions of the APR1400 and are key to gaining operational experience in simulated situations. To support the further training and development of reactor operators, engineers and maintenance personnel, ENEC is currently building a second Simulator Training Center at Barakah.
These simulators are among the most advanced nuclear training devices in the world due to their complex core modeling and ultramodern instrumentation and control systems. The simulators are used in conjunction with classroom and on-the-job training to teach senior reactor operator and reactor operator trainees the knowledge and skills needed to operate a nuclear energy plant.
What are the three biggest myths in nuclear energy?
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It's not safe to be near a nuclear energy plant
If you stood at the site boundary for a whole year, you would receive less than a quarter of the radiation from a chest x-ray.
02
Nuclear reactors can explode like bombs
It is not possible for a nuclear energy plant to explode like a bomb, these plants are designed to produce electricity safely and reliably.
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Radiation is man made
Radiation is energy in motion. There are many natural sources of radiation that we live with safely every day such as cosmic radiation from the sun.