Human factors assessment of digital monitoring systems for nuclear power plants control room

Conference · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:6926648

Lisboa, J ^[1]

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1. Bechtel Corp., San Francisco, CA (United States)

Most nuclear power plant control room systems are controlled by human operators. These operators are one of the several factors that can either degrade or improve power plant operations. The operator is an active element of an overall plant control system. A major safety and operational concern is that of monitoring a wrong display, either through misidentification, incorrect display type or by accident. The success that the operator will have, naturally depends on the availability of well presented information. To provide an effective control room man-machine interface, this paper presents a human factors analysis on digital display systems for nuclear safety and non-safety-related systems. The new instrumentation would replace existing conventional analog monitoring systems.

• OSTI ID: 6926648
• Report Number(s): CONF-911106-; CODEN: IETNAE
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 39:4; Conference: 1991 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, Santa Fe, NM (United States), 2-9 Nov 1991; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CONTROL ROOMS
REACTOR MONITORING SYSTEMS
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
ANALOG SYSTEMS
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SAFETY
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