Training your staff

• Trainers, engineers and technicians who use expertise that is recognised both inside and outside the EDF Group. In their professional work, they alternate between theory and practice.
• Daily contact with EDF's business units enables training courses to be enriched through the addition of numerous concrete cases studies.
• Internationally recognised scientific excellence (papers, higher education).
• Thanks to its location in the Paris-Saclay Research and Innovation cluster, the Institute benefits from the latest training facilities and from the Cluster partnerships dynamics.

For each training course of 1 to 5 days, a pedagogical manager supervises the various interventions:

Business models, innovation

• The role of the facilitator in promoting collective intelligence dynamics

Fuel core, neutronics

• Neutron transport in nuclear reactors: phenomenology
• Advanced neutron transport in nuclear reactors: theory and calculations
• Theory of PWR reactor physics

Instrumentation and control, instrumentation and industrial IT

• Operational safety of programmed systems

Economy

• Smart Grids : stakes, challenges and perspectives (NEW)

Energy efficiency

• Energy efficiency: sectoral vision and technologies
• Introduction to the diagnosis of industrial utilities

Environment, waste

• Climate system and weather forecasts
• Air quality, stakes, regulation and perspectives (NEW)
• Atmospheric physics and dispersion modelling

Functioning of electrical systems, operation of power networks

• Insertion of renewable energies
• Standards for Smart Grids
• Introduction to IEC 61850 standard
• Basic knowledge of telecoms in EDF business lines

Functioning and operation of power plants

• Introduction to Modelica modelling of energy process operation using the DYMOLA tool

Civil engineering

• Long-term management of civil engineering structures
• Durability of concrete structures in PWR power plants

Hydroelectricity

• Sedimentology in rivers and reservoirs
• TELEMAC – Module 1: basics on hydraulics and the use of SALOME and TELEMAC-2D
• TELEMAC – Module 2: construction of hydraulic model with SALOME-HYDRO
• TELEMAC – Module 3: use of TELEMAC-2D for hydraulic studies in fluvial environment
• TELEMAC – Module 4: use of TELEMAC-2D and TELEMAC-3D for hydraulic studies in maritime environment

Materials

• Materials in pressurized water nuclear reactors
• Resistance and behaviour of cementitious materials: micromechanical modelling

Electrical equipment

• Introduction to power electronics
• Understanding and interpreting electrical equipment tests

Applied mathematics

• Introduction to extreme value statistics
• Mathematical optimisation: from theory to implementation

Mechanics

• Code_Aster and Salomé_Méca: Introduction
• Code_Aster and Salomé_Méca: Civil Engineering
• Code_Aster and Salomé_Méca: High Performance Computing
• Code_Aster and Salomé_Méca: THM module

Optimisation of production and energy markets

• Understanding the gas market

Data science

• Introduction to data quality

Operational safety, security, radiological protection

• Reliability and safety of industrial systems
• Component reliability modelling: probabilistic methods, statistical methods, uncertainty analysis
• Uncertainties – Introduction: introduction to uncertainty analysis and use of digital models
• Uncertainties – Implementation: use of Open TURNS software for uncertainty analysis
• Uncertainties – Advanced: advanced methods and tools to process uncertainties for digital models
• Overall vision and benchmarks in feedback
• Use of KB3 in the context of Probabilistic Safety Assessments
• Physics of fires and use of MAGIC software

Information systems

• General architecture concepts for Information Systems

Thermal-hydraulics

• Local thermal-hydraulics: basics
• Local thermal-hydraulics: specific physics
• Code_Saturne – Module 1: getting started
• Code_Saturne – Module 2: advanced use and development
• Introduction to two-phase thermal-hydraulics at component level for cores and heat exchangers
• THYC component two-phase thermal-hydraulic code – Getting started

Processing scientific information

• SALOME platform - Module 1: getting started
• SALOME platform - Module 2: mesh creation using SMESH
• SALOME platform - Module 3: geometrical modelling using SHAPER
• SALOME platform - Module 4: using the ParaViS visualisation module
• SALOME platform - Module 5: using data assimilation with ADAO
• SALOME platform - Module 6: script development using ParaViS, management of mesh and fields using MEDCOUPLING
• Use of high-performance computing resources