High quality education & training towards Monju re-operation

Sawada, Makoto; Sakurai, Naoto 

The prototype FBR Monju which caused a sodium leak accident in Dec. 1995 is now under remodeling to attain its re-initial criticality in 2008. The success or failure of its safety operation is an important issue which influences development of nuclear fuel cycle. So, a high quality educational training is strongly required in order to assure its future safety operation. Based on the teachings learned from the accident, Monju has revised its educational training structure extensively such as, a new building a framework of educational training, a new open of Monju FBR Training School, a reinforcement of simulator training, etc.. A total of 29 established training courses, based on the mentioned above improvements, have been conducting towards Monju restarting.