Nuclear

NEXA™ Will Leverage Companies’ Expertise in Technology, Training and Operations Atlanta, Ga. – April 18, 2023 – Westinghouse Electric Company, Tecnatom and Accelerant Solutions announced today that the companies have signed a Teaming Agreement to launch a nuclear training program for utilities in the United States and Canada called NEXA™. The Nuclear Excellence Academy (NEXA™) … Read more

Why is it necessary to check the habitability of a control room? The control room of a nuclear power plant is the area from which the plant is operated bothunder normal operating conditions (startups, shutdowns and full power operation) and duringaccidents to keep the reactor in a safe condition. In addition to the panel area … Read more

The Spanish Nuclear Society is an organization that involves all the players inthe Spanish nuclear sector and Tecnatom, aware of the importance of theAnnual Meeting for our sector, has made a significant contribution to this event,which this year celebrated its forty-seventh edition in the city of Cartagena. 🎥 Palabras de agradecimiento de Francisco Javier Guerra, … Read more

Tecnatom continues to support the Argentinean nuclear program and, within this framework, has given the course “PWR nuclear technology, nuclear accidents, radiological consequences and hydrogen value chain”. This training program is part of the International Postgraduate Courses dictated under the BEC.AR II program of the Ministry of Education of the Argentine Republic. About forty students … Read more

Nuclear power plants and facilities are designed, built and operated with the highest levels of safety and strict quality standards. Therefore, they are among the safest facilities in the world from both a physical and technological point of view. Nuclear safety aims to minimize the probability of an accident occurring and to mitigate its consequences, … Read more

What is cloud simulation? Cloud computing is a technology that is consolidating as one of the great levers to promote innovation and consolidate digitization in organizations. Aware of this, at Tecnatom we have opted for this solution to host our combined cycle training simulator. We tell you about our experience, and how we have been … Read more

Fire protection is vital at any industrial facility and is a key activity at nuclear power plants. For this reason, Tecnatom has participated in a project aimed at validating the optimum status of the response to fires from the control room, from the point of view of human factors. The origin of this project is … Read more

A generic simulator is a highly accurate replica that does not correspond exactly to any specific facility, or at least not to the installation that the users are going to operate. Obviously, these simulators do share the main elements and operational philosophy of the majority of the facilities of this particular type. Given that there … Read more

During 2021, SPERI (Shanghai Power Equipment Research Institute), a research and technology company belonging to the  SPIC (State Power Investment Corporation) group, has signed three contracts with  Tecnatom for the deployment and use of TecOS SOLCEP at three coal-fired plants belonging to the Chinese electricity utility SPIC: Kaifeng, Caojing and Fuxi. These three contracts with … Read more