@@@@The 2nd BWR Operator Training Seminar was held on November 26th
and 27th at BTC Fukushima Center.
30 administrators, dispatched from various utility companies
attended. It was well attended and
ended successfully. This
goal of this seminar was to focus on training and new trials that are rooted in
"humanity" in order to satisfy BTC customers. It was composed of four-sessions: BTC activity
report, lecture meeting, panel discussion, and BTC facility tour. In the
first session, BTC reported overall BTC training activities concerned with
reinforcement of the portions of training rooted in "humanity". Also reported were the team training
evaluations obtained from BTC activities until now, soft skill training
currently under development, plant diagnosis during earthquake training, as
well as basic operation techniques. In the second session, Mr.
Saso Kunihide of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, who
has researched the human factor for many years, gave a lecture titled "Teamwork
evaluation and improvement makes a personal group into a team". The lecture began by defining the meaning of team and continued
by defining a good team, how to evaluate team power, the direction to enhance
the teamwork etc. These was done easy to understand, In the third session,
five lecturers including Mr. Saso Kunihide, Tohoku University associate professor
Makoto Takahashi, Ph.D, Miyagi
Gakuin Women's College associate professor Tomoki Ohashi, Ph.D, Tokyo Electric
Power Company Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station Duputy General Manager Saburo
Kobayashi and Mr. Kunio Noji of BTC took part in
the panel discussion. The discussion point was
"how training rooted in 'humanity' should be". Active opinions were exchanged concerning eradication
of human error, reinforcement of teamwork in case of emergency, and daily team management. In the
forth session "BTC facility tourh, the plant
diagnosis training which was newly developed was demonstrated.
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