Westinghouse Electric Corporation Nuclear Training Center manuals, 1982-1983

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Summary

Creators:

Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Nuclear Training Center

Abstract:

This collection contains manuals published by the Nuclear Training Center of Westinghouse Electric Corporation on the thermodynamics of nuclear power plants. These manuals were part of a training program provided by Westinghouse for the education of Southern California Edison employees who presumably worked for the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

Extent:

1.1 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

Westinghouse Electric Corporation Nuclear Training Center manuals. MS-R126. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

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Background

Scope and content:: This collection contains loose-leaf manuals published by the Nuclear Training Center of Westinghouse Electric Corporation on the thermodynamics of nuclear power plants. These manuals were part of a training program provided by Westinghouse for the education of Southern California Edison employees. The manuals include diagrams of equipment employed in the generation of power, instruction on how to use the equipment, and glossaries of related terminology. Topics addressed in the manuals are power plant performance, steam generators, turbine thermodynamics, radioactivity, and nuclear reactors. The five titles are "Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics," "Radiation, Chemistry and Corrosion considerations for Nuclear Power Plant Applications," "Material Considerations of Pressurized Water Reactors," "Thermal-Hydraulic Principles and Applications to the Pressurized Water Reactor," and "Reactor Core Control for Large Pressurized Water Reactors."
Biographical / historical:: The Westinghouse Electric Company provides fuel, services, technology, plant design, and equipment for the commercial nuclear electric power industry. It also offers training programs and other educational services in the area of nuclear technology. In the 1980s Southern California Edison employees who worked with nuclear electric power used the Westinghouse training manuals in this collection. Southern California Edison operates one nuclear electric power plant, the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).
Acquisition information:: Gift of Linda Flomerfelt, 2006.
Processing information:: Processed by Cyndi Shein, 2007.
Arrangement:: This collection is arranged alphabetically by title.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Nuclear power plants -- Thermodynamics.
Nuclear reactors -- Cooling.
Nuclear power plants -- Employees -- Training of.
Nuclear power plants -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (Calif.) -- Employees -- Training of.
Training manuals -- 20th century.
Manuals (Handbooks) -- 20th century.

Access and use

Restrictions:: The collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.