Improving human reliability through better nuclear power plant system design: Program for advanced nuclear power studies. Progress report
The project on ``Development of a Theory of the Dependence of Human Reliability upon System Designs as a Means of Improving Nuclear Power Plant Performance`` was been undertaken in order to address the problem of human error in advanced nuclear power plant designs. Lack of a mature theory has retarded progress in reducing likely frequencies of human errors. Work being pursued in this project is to perform a set of experiments involving human subjects who are required to operate, diagnose and respond to changes in computer-simulated systems, relevant to those encountered in nuclear power plants, which are made to differ in complexity in a systematic manner. The computer program used to present the problems to be solved also records the response of the operator as it unfolds.
- Research Organization:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Engineering
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG02-92ER75787
- OSTI ID:
- 10116022
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ER/75787-T1; ON: DE94005413; BR: KV0200000; TRN: 94:002274
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 10 Oct 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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