Modern personnel training and retraining system is a guarantee of NPPs' safe reliable operation. Personnel training for NPPs is conducted at Kyiv and Odessa Polytechnic universities, Sevastopol Institute of Nuclear Energy and Industry.

Since the time when independence of Ukraine was proclaimed per­sonnel training system was created directly at NPPs. This system is based on the latest legislation framework, developed subject to IAEA recommendations, gained international experience in the field of per­sonnel training in view of increased demands to personnel qualifica­tion.

Training Centers, formed at each plant, form one of the main com­ponents of NPP personnel training. Total number of personnel at these centers is 436 persons, including 160 instructors.

Personnel's training at Training Centers is performed in accordance with standard programs, at that, special consideration is given to maintaining qualification of the licensed personnel.

Simulator training base was created by joint efforts of specialists from the USA, Russia and Ukraine.

In 1993 the first in Ukraine full scope simulator of the main control room began to work at Zaporizhzhya NPP. The simulator is designed for acquiring by personnel of skills in reactor control under normal operation, off-normal conditions and emergency situations. Now the development of the second full scope sim­ulator is on-going. It is stipulated to be put into operation in 2002. In December 1997 a similar simulator was put into operation at Khmelnitsky NPP.

In May 2001 a full scope simulator for Rivne NPP unit # 3 personnel training was put into pilot operation   in 2002 it is planned to put into operation one more VVER-440 simulator.

In 2000 Zaporizhzhya NPP received license to train and continue training for the oper­ating personnel. Now all Training Centers of NPPs have obtained similar licenses.

The work on establishing manager training system and replacement reserves for NNEGC ENERGOATOM man­agerial personnel, including training program and training materials development, teach­ers' selection and training, is on going.

NNEGC ENERGOATOM tries to bring its personnel skills to the internationally accepted level through creation of all conditions for NPPs personnel training and qualification upgrading, scientific techni­cal support of nuclear installation on the basis of National Academy of Sciences, ministries and departments.