Special commission of OJSC Concern Rosenergoatom – company, fulfilling functions of operator of all Russian nuclear stations, has given permission for conducting training of operating personnel on the simulator, worked out in MEPhI and installed in the personnel training center of the Rostov NPP.

Simulator, officially called PMT-3, was created at MEPhI Automatics Department and is aimed at the operating personnel of block control board to acquire expertise, knowledge and skills, necessary for quality fulfillment of daily routine duties. The simulator includes a full-scale imitator of block and reserve control units of the third power unit of Rostov NPP, modelling a computer complex and such essential components of a modern nuclear object as communications system, control system and video surveillance system. The simulator also have working stations for instructors.

Full-scale simulator PMT-3 of the third power unit of Rostov NPP

In accordance with specific customer’s requirements, MEPhI Automatics Department has worked out software, which models in real time physical processes, going on in technological systems of acting power units. In particular, PMT-3 fully simulates the control unit of the Rostov NPP as well as real operations fulfilled by it. Moreover, the simulator can model neutron-physical and technological processes in the equipment of nuclear power unit and perform all normal and abnormal operations including modes with equipment failures, design accidents and beyond design basis events.

As Rostov NPP specialists claim, the launching of the new simulator will allow them significantly raise the safety and the efficiency of exploitation of the third power unit, and provide quality training and retraining of operating personnel for working at high technology equipment.