At 31 December 2013, CNAT employed 806 professionals who are the best guarantee of long-term success and our most valued support to confront the challenges that will present themselves in the coming years. The CNAT team is characterised by its experience and high levels of qualification: 45.15% hold a university degree.

During 2013 there were 8 new graduate recruits and in all cases they took part in an initial training programme and specific preparatory training before taking up their positions.

These recruits allow for staff turnover while ensuring the safe and reliable operation of the plants in the long-term. Regarding gender distribution, the current participation of females in the workforce is 8.3%.

Also, it should be noted that CNAT staff are continuously supported by personnel from external companies during normal operation of the plants, and especially during refuelling.
On 5 July 2013, the organisation’s Family Friendly Company emblem was renewed for a further period of 3 years. This confirmed our clear and vocational commitment to continuing advances on conciliation and equality of opportunity.

Almaraz-Trillo Nuclear Power Plants have permanent resources devoted to planning and developing annual training plans for each workplace, both for initial training and for retraining and training in management skills.

Efforts to maintain the qualifications of personnel working at the plants in 2013 totalled 152,527.4 training hours and 5,351 individuals were trained.

The proportion of the training programmes devoted to retraining workers was 55% and the portion corresponding to initial training was 45%.

During 2013, 583 initial training and retraining courses were held for CNAT employees, with the participation of 7,878 attendees totalling 85,376.8 training hours. Notably, 97.7% of employees received some training, with an average training provision per employee of 89.4 hours, which represents a dedication of 5.4% of the working year. Regarding the group of women who are part of the CNAT team, 95% have participated in training activities during the year, receiving an average of 67.9 hours of training. Training programmes for future Plant operators, prior to joining the staff, have involved the provision of 14,589 hours of training during the year.

In 2012 Almaraz-Trillo Nuclear Power Plants maintained the process of monitoring the qualification of contracting company personnel, and they have continued to encourage improvements in their training, by providing support for training activities scheduled for the staff, and by arranging specific training sessions for these workers. 42,934.9 hours of initial training were provided for contractor personnel, involving 3,521 attendees. In the area of retraining and refresher training, the attendance of employees from contracting companies at training activities planned for our own staff has been facilitated, resulting in an additional 6,493 external attendees who received 24,215.8 hours of training provided by CNAT. Overall, contracting company personnel received a total of 67,150.6 hours training, representing 44 % of the total training hours provided at the Almaraz-Trillo Nuclear Power Plants.

Internal communication plays a significant role at CNAT, and for that reason it employs several channels of communication with employees. In 2013 a new internal communication channel was launched: the magazine “Mundo CNAT” (CNAT World). It will be sent to the homes of all employees on a quarterly basis, with the goal of group creation, establishing linkages, encouraging the bonding of employees and disseminating information about the company.

In addition to these relationships and to improve the knowledge of communication professionals about the activity of Plants, CNAT has renewed agreements with news agencies and associations most representative of the environment surrounding the Plants, through which it is seeking to promote the education and training of students in the final year of Information Sciences regarding nuclear originated electricity. A course was also held at Trillo about nuclear technology for media professional, which takes place every year.

Since being brought into service in 1977 and 1981 respectively, the information centres at Almaraz and Trillo, have received almost one million visitors, more specifically, 984,056. During 2013 these information centres have welcomed 8,219 visitors, 3,802 at Almaraz and 4,417 at Trillo. Most of the visitors were students of different levels, from schools and from educational establishments covering secondary education to university education.