title: Developing a virtual reality application for training nuclear power plant operators: setting up a database containing dose rates in the refuelling plant.
abstract: Operators in Nuclear Power Plants can receive high doses during refuelling operations. A training programme for simulating refuelling operations will be useful in reducing the doses received by workers as well as minimising operation time. With this goal in mind, a virtual reality application is developed within the framework of the CIPRES project. The application requires doses, both instantaneous and accumulated, to be displayed at all times during operator training. Therefore, it is necessary to set up a database containing dose rates at every point in the refuelling plant. This database is based on radiological protection surveillance data measured in the plant during refuelling operations. Some interpolation routines have been used to estimate doses through the refuelling plant. Different assumptions have been adopted in order to perform the interpolation and obtain consistent data. In this paper, the procedures developed to set up the dose database for the virtual reality application are presented and analysed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Nuclear, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Apartado 22012 E-46071 Valencia, Spain. jrodenas@iqn.upv.es
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ródenas
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Zarza
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Burgos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Felipe
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Mayoral
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D017753:Ecosystem; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009688:Nuclear Reactors; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D011210:Power Plants / Q000193:education*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface