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Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell control-room simulator

I was recently lucky enough to be invited along on a trip to Sizewell Bs operations training centre to see and try their control room simulator.

Operational Discipline We were extremely fortunate in that we were being shown around by someone who's worked in Sizewell's control room for a long time, making it a hugely educational experience. But, although it makes me think "oh no, x is down, incident channel now", it's actually referring to planned downtime: Every 18 months, the plant stops supplying the grid for maintenance and refuelling. The simulator allows operators to build and run scenarios, but also allows trainers to manually change the state of components (perhaps to cause a light to flash on a panel that someone's looking towards and check that they react to it).

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