Starting from 21st October up to 8th November 2019, the advance training course on BROKK manipulators hands-on repair and maintenance has been taking place at ChNPP site. Such manipulators are being used at the Industrial Complex for Solid Radioactive Waste Management.

The training course is being delivered by Belgian TECNUBEL within the cooperation project with ChNPP, which has been going on for the last two years. The project is financed from the government fund of Belgium.

The course provides for tutorials and hands-on training on making replacement of BROKK manipulator hydraulic components. The instructors – Project Manager and Product Expert Tarik Bouayad and Senior Experts Pier Collette and Nizar Belgacem – simulate various emergency events, and the course participants – ChNPP workers – have to run diagnostics and find out the solution for the simulated problem.

Belgian experts working together with groups of ChNPP technical specialists at ChNPP Training Center has been reviewing the sequence of necessary actions for BROKK manipulators maintenance, as well as all possible problems which could occur during this process. This is above all the necessary step for safe performance of the hands-on training part of the course at ChNPP site.

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The training course will help ChNPP employees perform fault diagnostics as well as maintenance and repair of BROKK manipulators on their own.