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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on July 20, 2004
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nch043
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Received January 3, 2003
Revised March 1, 2004
Accepted March 4, 2004

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL PAPER

DEVELOPING A VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATION FOR TRAINING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT OPERATORS: SETTING UP A DATABASE CONTAINING DOSE RATES IN THE REFUELLING PLANT

J. Ródenas 1*, I. Zarza 1, M. C. Burgos 1, A. Felipe 2, M. L. Sánchez-Mayoral 2

1 Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Nuclear, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Apartado 22012 E-46071 Valencia, Spain
2 IBERINCO, Departamento de Generación Nuclear, Av. de Burgos, 8B (Edif. Génesis) 28036 Madrid, Spain

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jrodenas{at}iqn.upv.es.


  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.


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