Human Factors Issues For Multi-Modular Reactor Units
Conference
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OSTI ID:919555
Smaller and multi-modular reactor (MMR) will be highly technologically-advanced systems allowing more system flexibility to reactors configurations (e.g., addition/deletion of reactor units). While the technical and financial advantages of systems may be numerous, MMR presents many human factors challenges that may pose vulnerability to plant safety. An important human factors challenge in MMR operation and performance is the monitoring of data from multiple plants from centralized control rooms where human operators are responsible for interpreting, assessing, and responding to different system’s states and failures (e.g., simultaneously monitoring refueling at one plant while keeping an eye on another plant’s normal operating state). Furthermore, the operational, safety, and performance requirements for MMR can seriously change current staffing models and roles, the mode in which information is displayed, procedures and training to support and guide operators, and risk analysis. For these reasons, addressing human factors concerns in MMR are essential in reducing plant risk.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE - NE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-99ID13727;
- OSTI ID:
- 919555
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-07-12743
- Conference Information:
- Joint 8th Annual IEEE Conference on Human Factors and Power Plants and 13th Annual Workshop on Human,Monterey, CA,08/26/2007,08/31/2007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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