Reports of the Technical Assessment Task Force on selection, training, qualification, and licensing of Three Mile Island reactor operating personnel; technical assessment of operating, abnormal, and emergency procedures; control room design and performance

As a part of the effort to identify and evaluate the possible causes of the Three Mile Island accident, an analysis of operator training, qualification, licensing, selection, and manning was conducted by the staff. The study included review of documents, interviews, and depositions at Three Mile Island, Babcock and Wilcox, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) during June, July, and August 1979. Analysis of the information obtained was conducted almost exclusively by the writer. This paper examines the roles of the actors involved in training and it reviews the various programs which were intended to staff Three Mile Island with sufficient numbers of competent, trained operators and supervisors. The analysis includes a review of the regulations concerning operator training and licensing; describes how the requirements were implemented by the NRC, Metropolitan Edison Company (Met Ed), and Babcock and Wilcox Company (B and W), and then evaluates the programs conducted by these three organizations