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Title: Treatment of operator actions in the HTGR risk assessment study

Abstract

Methods are presented for the treatment of operator actions, developed in the AIPA risk assessment study. Some examples are given of how these methods were applied to the analysis of potential HTGR accidents. Realistic predictions of accident risks required a balanced treatment of both beneficial and detrimental actions and responses of human operators and maintenance crews. Th essential elements of the human factors methodology used in the AIPA study include event tree and fault tree analysis, time-dependent operator response and repair models, a method for quantifying common cause failure probabilities, and synthesis of relevant experience data for use in these models.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
General Atomic Co., San Diego, CA (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
5474843
Report Number(s):
GA-A-15499; CONF-791103-71
TRN: 80-006521
DOE Contract Number:  
AT03-76ET35300
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: American Nuclear Society meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 12 Nov 1979
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; HTGR TYPE REACTORS; PERSONNEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; REACTOR SAFETY; ACCIDENTS; GAS COOLED REACTORS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; REACTORS; SAFETY; SYSTEM FAILURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; 220900* - Nuclear Reactor Technology- Reactor Safety; 210300 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Graphite Moderated

Citation Formats

Fleming, K. N., Silady, F. A., and Hannaman, G. W. Treatment of operator actions in the HTGR risk assessment study. United States: N. p., 1979. Web.
Fleming, K. N., Silady, F. A., & Hannaman, G. W. Treatment of operator actions in the HTGR risk assessment study. United States.
Fleming, K. N., Silady, F. A., and Hannaman, G. W. 1979. "Treatment of operator actions in the HTGR risk assessment study". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5474843.
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abstractNote = {Methods are presented for the treatment of operator actions, developed in the AIPA risk assessment study. Some examples are given of how these methods were applied to the analysis of potential HTGR accidents. Realistic predictions of accident risks required a balanced treatment of both beneficial and detrimental actions and responses of human operators and maintenance crews. Th essential elements of the human factors methodology used in the AIPA study include event tree and fault tree analysis, time-dependent operator response and repair models, a method for quantifying common cause failure probabilities, and synthesis of relevant experience data for use in these models.},
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year = {Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1979},
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