Human Reliability Data Bank: evaluation results

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5729354

Comer, M K; Donovan, M D; Gaddy, C D

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and General Physics Corporation are conducting a research program to determine the practicality, acceptability, and usefulness of a Human Reliability Data Bank for nuclear power industry probabilistic risk assessment (PRA). As part of this program, a survey was conducted of existing human reliability data banks from other industries, and a detailed concept of a Data Bank for the nuclear industry was developed. Subsequently, a detailed specification for implementing the Data Bank was developed. An evaluation of this specification was conducted and is described in this report. The evaluation tested data treatment, storage, and retrieval using the Data Bank structure, as modified from NUREG/CR-2744, and detailed procedures for data processing and retrieval, developed prior to this evaluation and documented in the test specification. The evaluation consisted of an Operability Demonstration and Evaluation of the data processing procedures, a Data Retrieval Demonstration and Evaluation, a Retrospective Analysis that included a survey of organizations currently operating data banks for the nuclear power industry, and an Internal Analysis of the current Data Bank System.

• Research Organization: General Physics Corp., Columbia, MD (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5729354
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-4009; SAND-85-7150; ON: TI85010668
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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