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Review Of Methods Related To Assessing Human Performance In Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Simulations
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Book Synopsis Review of Methods Related to Assessing Human Performance in Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Simulations by :
Download or read book Review of Methods Related to Assessing Human Performance in Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Simulations written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increased use of digital systems in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) control rooms comes a need to thoroughly understand the human performance issues associated with digital systems. A common way to evaluate human performance is to test operators and crews in NPP control room simulators. However, it is often challenging to characterize human performance in meaningful ways when measuring performance in NPP control room simulations. A review of the literature in NPP simulator studies reveals a variety of ways to measure human performance in NPP control room simulations including direct observation, automated computer logging, recordings from physiological equipment, self-report techniques, protocol analysis and structured debriefs, and application of model-based evaluation. These methods and the particular measures used are summarized and evaluated.
Book Synopsis Risk-informed Methods and Applications in Nuclear and Energy Engineering by : Curtis Smith
Download or read book Risk-informed Methods and Applications in Nuclear and Energy Engineering written by Curtis Smith and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk-informed Methods and Applications in Nuclear and Energy Engineering: Modelling, Experimentation, and Validation presents a comprehensive view of the latest technical approaches and experimental capabilities in nuclear energy engineering. Based on Idaho National Laboratory’s popular summer school series, this book compiles a collection of entries on the cutting-edge research and knowledge presented by proponents and developers of current and future nuclear systems, focusing on the connection between modelling and experimental approaches. Included in this book are key topics such as probabilistic concepts for risk analysis, the survey of legacy reliability and risk analysis tools, and newly developed tools supporting dynamic probabilistic risk-assessment. This book is an insightful and inspiring compilation of work from top nuclear experts from INL. Industry professionals, researchers and academics working in nuclear engineering, safety, operations and training will gain a board picture of the current state-of-practice and be able to apply that to their own risk-assessment studies. Based on Idaho National Laboratory’s summer school series, this book is a collection of entries from proponents and developers of current and future nuclear systems Provides an up-to-date view of current technical approaches and experimental capabilities in nuclear energy engineering, covering modeling and validation, and focusing on risk-informed methods and applications Equips the reader with an understanding of various case studies and experimental validations to enable them to carry out a risk-assessment study
Book Synopsis Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World by : Gráinne Conole
Download or read book Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World written by Gráinne Conole and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2015, held in Toledo, Spain, in September 2015. The 27 full papers, 19 short papers, 9 demo papers and 23 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 176 submissions. They address topics such as blended learning; self-regulated and self directed learning; reflective learning; intelligent learning systems; learning communities; learning design; learning analytics; learning assessment; personalization and adaptation; serious games; social media; massive open online courses (MOOCs); schools of the future.
Book Synopsis Human Performance Monitoring in Nuclear Power Plants by :
Download or read book Human Performance Monitoring in Nuclear Power Plants written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review of current human performance monitoring and review methods and recommendations of methods that could be appropriate for application by the Atomic Energy Control Board to nuclear power plants. Visits were made to five nuclear plants, as well as to three non-nuclear sites where safety maintenance is critical. Literature on maintenance monitoring practices and on methods of employee performance evaluation was reviewed.
Book Synopsis Human System Simulation in Support of Human Performance Technical Basis at NPPs by :
Download or read book Human System Simulation in Support of Human Performance Technical Basis at NPPs written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on strategies and progress toward establishing the Idaho National Laboratory's (INL's) Human Systems Simulator Laboratory at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), a consortium of Idaho State Universities. The INL is one of the National Laboratories of the US Department of Energy. One of the first planned applications for the Human Systems Simulator Laboratory is implementation of a dynamic nuclear power plant simulation (NPP) where studies of operator workload, situation awareness, performance and preference will be carried out in simulated control rooms including nuclear power plant control rooms. Simulation offers a means by which to review operational concepts, improve design practices and provide a technical basis for licensing decisions. In preparation for the next generation power plant and current government and industry efforts in support of light water reactor sustainability, human operators will be attached to a suite of physiological measurement instruments and, in combination with traditional Human Factors Measurement techniques, carry out control room tasks in simulated advanced digital and hybrid analog/digital control rooms. The current focus of the Human Systems Simulator Laboratory is building core competence in quantitative and qualitative measurements of situation awareness and workload. Of particular interest is whether introduction of digital systems including automated procedures has the potential to reduce workload and enhance safety while improving situation awareness or whether workload is merely shifted and situation awareness is modified in yet to be determined ways. Data analysis is carried out by engineers and scientists and includes measures of the physical and neurological correlates of human performance. The current approach supports a user-centered design philosophy (see ISO 13407 "Human Centered Design Process for Interactive Systems, 1999) wherein the context for task performance along with the requirements of the end-user are taken into account during the design process and the validity of design is determined through testing of real end users.
Book Synopsis Staff Supplement to the Draft Report on Human Engineering Guide to Control Room Evaluation by :
Download or read book Staff Supplement to the Draft Report on Human Engineering Guide to Control Room Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human Factors Evaluation of Control Room Design and Operator Performance at Three Mile Island-2 by : T. B. Malone
Download or read book Human Factors Evaluation of Control Room Design and Operator Performance at Three Mile Island-2 written by T. B. Malone and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Applying Human-performance Models to Designing and Evaluating Nuclear Power Plants by :
Download or read book Applying Human-performance Models to Designing and Evaluating Nuclear Power Plants written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human performance models (HPMs) are simulations of human behavior with which we can predict human performance. Designers use them to support their human factors engineering (HFE) programs for a wide range of complex systems, including commercial nuclear power plants. Applicants to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) can use HPMs for design certifications, operating licenses, and license amendments. In the context of nuclear-plant safety, it is important to assure that HPMs are verified and validated, and their usage is consistent with their intended purpose. Using HPMs improperly may generate misleading or incorrect information, entailing safety concerns. The objective of this research was to develop guidance to support the NRC staff's reviews of an applicant's use of HPMs in an HFE program. The guidance is divided into three topical areas: (1) HPM Verification, (2) HPM Validation, and (3) User Interface Verification. Following this guidance will help ensure the benefits of HPMs are achieved in a technically sound, defensible manner. During the course of developing this guidance, I identified several issues that could not be addressed; they also are discussed.
Book Synopsis Human factors review of nuclear power plant control room design by : J. L. Seminara
Download or read book Human factors review of nuclear power plant control room design written by J. L. Seminara and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Human factors review of nuclear power plant control room design : summary report by : J. L. Seminara
Download or read book Human factors review of nuclear power plant control room design : summary report written by J. L. Seminara and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing Human Performance Measures by : Larry Blackwood
Download or read book Developing Human Performance Measures written by Larry Blackwood and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the reactor oversight process (ROP), the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) monitors the performance of utilities licensed to operate nuclear power plants. The process is designed to assure public health and safety by providing reasonable assurance that licensees are meeting the cornerstones of safety and designated crosscutting elements. The reactor inspection program, together with performance indicators (PIs), and enforcement activities form the basis for the NRC's risk-informed, performance based regulatory framework. While human performance is a key component in the safe operation of nuclear power plants and is a designated cross-cutting element of the ROP, there is currently no direct inspection or performance indicator for assessing human performance. Rather, when human performance is identified as a substantive cross cutting element in any 1 of 3 categories (resources, organizational or personnel), it is then evaluated for common themes to determine if follow-up actions are warranted. However, variability in human performance occurs from day to day, across activities that vary in complexity, and workgroups, contributing to the uncertainty in the outcomes of performance. While some variability in human performance may be random, much of the variability may be attributed to factors that are not currently assessed. There is a need to identify and assess aspects of human performance that relate to plant safety and to develop measures that can be used to successfully assure licensee performance and indicate when additional investigation may be required. This paper presents research that establishes a technical basis for developing human performance measures. In particular, we discuss: 1) how historical data already gives some indication of connection between human performance and overall plant performance, 2) how industry led efforts to measure and model human performance and organizational factors could serve as a data source and basis for a framework, 3) how our use of modeling and simulation techniques could be used to develop and validate measures of human performance, and 4) what the possible outcomes are from this research as the modeling and simulation efforts generate results.
Book Synopsis Human Facors Review of Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Design by : Joseph L. Seminara
Download or read book Human Facors Review of Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Design written by Joseph L. Seminara and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Evaluation of the Effects of Local Control Station Design Configurations on Human Performance and Nuclear Power Plant Risk by :
Download or read book An Evaluation of the Effects of Local Control Station Design Configurations on Human Performance and Nuclear Power Plant Risk written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Development and Evaluation of Attention and Situation Awareness Measures in Nuclear Process Control Using the Rancor Microworld Environment by : Thomas A. Ulrich
Download or read book The Development and Evaluation of Attention and Situation Awareness Measures in Nuclear Process Control Using the Rancor Microworld Environment written by Thomas A. Ulrich and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear process control is a complex domain requiring human factors research to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of nuclear power plants. The aging fleet of U.S. nuclear power plants are undergoing control room modernization. This control room modernization effort focuses on upgrading the human system interfaces with advanced digital interfaces. To aid this effort, the Rancor Microworld was developed as a platform to examine human factors and related psychological constructs in the complex nuclear process control domain. Rancor was designed for use with novice student populations to augment full-scope simulation studies using expert operator participants. Students and operators were evaluated while they completed the Rancor Microworld process control task. Several aspects of human performance were examined, including primary process control task performance, situation awareness, and patterns of attention. Situation awareness, a key element of complex process control, was assessed with SAGAT-like and SACRI-like freeze probes. Patterns of attention were assessed using a traditional eye tracking fixation measure. Additionally, a new simple attention-acknowledgement measure was proposed, developed, and evaluated to provide researchers with another method of assessing attention within the complex process control domain. Results from this work suggest students and operators demonstrate similar performance with a noticeable decrement for operators, likely due to negative expertise transfer, during the first trial. Operators demonstrated better situation awareness than students, which suggests there is at least one key difference between the novice student and expert operator populations. The eye tracking fixation-based measure and the attention-acknowledgement measure of attention both assessed similar patterns of attention during the Rancor Microworld task. Additionally, both measures were sensitive to different patterns of attention for the various process control subtasks, which indicates the attention-acknowledgement measure is an effective method for assessing patterns of attention in a complex nuclear process control domain.
Book Synopsis Managing Human Performance to Improve Nuclear Facility Operation by : International Atomic Energy Agency
Download or read book Managing Human Performance to Improve Nuclear Facility Operation written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution of human performance to the occurrence of significant events and consequently to overall performance improvement in the nuclear field has been well documented. Nuclear industry experience shows that within nuclear power plants, 80% of significant events can be attributed to human error. Monitoring and continually improving human performance has now become one of the key challenges in the management of human resources for a nuclear facility. This publication provides practical guidance in this area and will assist Member States to review and improve the systems and process for improving human performance as a major contribution to sustaining and improving the performance of nuclear facilities.
Book Synopsis FRAMEWORK AND APPLICATION FOR MODELING CONTROL ROOM CREW PERFORMANCE AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. by :
Download or read book FRAMEWORK AND APPLICATION FOR MODELING CONTROL ROOM CREW PERFORMANCE AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper summarizes an emerging project regarding the utilization of high-fidelity MIDAS simulations for visualizing and modeling control room crew performance at nuclear power plants. The key envisioned uses for MIDAS-based control room simulations are: (i) the estimation of human error associated with advanced control room equipment and configurations, (ii) the investigative determination of contributory cognitive factors for risk significant scenarios involving control room operating crews, and (iii) the certification of reduced staffing levels in advanced control rooms. It is proposed that MIDAS serves as a key component for the effective modeling of cognition, elements of situation awareness, and risk associated with human performance in next generation control rooms.
Book Synopsis Modeling and Simulation Approaches to Developing Human Performance Measures in Nuclear Industry by :
Download or read book Modeling and Simulation Approaches to Developing Human Performance Measures in Nuclear Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human performance is a key component to the safe operation of nuclear power plants. Further, human performance is quite variable, and while some variability may be random, much of it may be attributed to factors that are difficult to assess. There is a need to identify and assess aspects of human performance that relate to plant safety and to develop measures that can be used to successfully assess human performance for purposes of research that can lead to technical basis for developing human factors review criteria.
