DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING GUIDANCE FOR SAFETY EVALUATIONS OF ADVANCED REACTORS.

Conference · Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:893861

O'HARA, J; PERSENSKY, J; SZABO, A

Advanced reactors are expected to be based on a concept of operations that is different from what is currently used in today's reactors. Therefore, regulatory staff may need new tools, developed from the best available technical bases, to support licensing evaluations. The areas in which new review guidance may be needed and the efforts underway to address the needs will be discussed. Our preliminary results focus on some of the technical issues to be addressed in three areas for which new guidance may be developed: automation and control, operations under degraded conditions, and new human factors engineering methods and tools.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/NRC/ANS
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 893861
• Report Number(s): BNL-NUREG-77063-2006-CP; R&D Project: 15351; 66015113277; TRN: US0606097
• Resource Relation: Conference: ANS 2006 WINTER MEETING AND NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY EXPO; ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO; 20061112 through 20061116
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
AUTOMATION
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
REACTORS
REACTOR LICENSING
CONTROL
REACTOR OPERATION