Operations M2

This specialization is designed to prepare students to operate, manage, and maintain nuclear installations, and especially electronuclear power plants. It provides a solid knowledge of the physical phenomena liable to affect the safety functions of an installation. It trains students in all of the procedures and measures designed to ensure operational safety, and human and environmental protection, under normal, disrupted, and crisis conditions. Operations that rely on the daily behavior of personnel, the human factor, and safety management, all form an important part of this specialized training.

Objectives

In addition to technical knowledge, this specialization is designed to provide students with a broad and comprehensive vision of the field of nuclear energy, combining both technical, and organizational and managerial skills.
Upon completion of the training programme, students will have acquired the following expertise:

• Nuclear plant operation and maintenance
• Operation procedure and safety rules, safety management
• Radioprotection principles and methods used in operations, safety-radioprotection articulation
• Optimization of plant performance
• Teamwork, collective division of complex installation representations, human factors
• Nuclear-specific regulations

In addition to multidisciplinary technical skills, students develop the capacity to bring together the various domains involved in the operation of nuclear installations, thus acquiring the skills necessary to direct and manage services.

First Semester

• Common Core
  • Introduction to Safety
  • Functional Description of Nuclear Plants
  • Management, Risk Management
  • Environment-Society
  • Radioprotection
  • Applied Nuclear Physics
• Specialization Courses
  • Installation Direction
  • Radioprotection (2)
  • Reactor Thermal Hydraulics

Second Semester

• Specialization Courses
  • Safety and Production
  • Installation Maintenance
  • Instrumentation and Calculation Codes
• Internship