L3 MAPPS: Simulating Better, Safer Nuclear Power Plants

The modules are highly interactive, allowing trainees to truly understand plant equipment and monitor the real-time responses from plant systems. Lastly, Learning Simulators assist instructors in teaching and help the new workforce to gain knowledge on major plant transients, associated power plant systems, and their behavior. These technologies provide recruits a practical route to understanding the complex phenomena taking place in nuclear power plants by presenting an interactive and visual environment.

The main objective of the training technique is to ensure that operators can run the power plant reliably and safely. Consequently, an essential element of NPP workforce training is to make recruits familiar with realistic operating conditions. L3 MAPPS’ NPP operator training simulators allow instructors to create unfavorable conditions that an operator may potentially face in the future. This gives trainee operators the first-hand experience of managing power plants during normal, abnormal, and emergency conditions and practice accident-preventive and recovery measures. This capability underlines the added emphasis on accident analysis and preventive measures put forth by unlikely nuclear reactor events such as the Fukushima Daiichi accident that resulted from an earthquake and ensuing tsunami. The firm’s proven ability to incorporate severe accident simulation allows severe accident analysis like core damage assessment and radiological breach assessment.

Along with offering practical simulation solutions that aid the learning experience of trainees, L3 is very customer-centric in its approach. The firm’s product development process is based on a client feedback loop with significant investments made toward software innovation and enhancement.

With nearly four and a half decades of experience, L3 MAPPS is a pioneer in the simulation field. The firm’s emphasis on customer relations and its flexibility to address differing requirements of the nuclear power sector has been a key advantage over its peers. Moving ahead, L3 MAPPS aims to continue its market leadership through continued innovation to support the growing demand for nuclear energy.