Proceedings of the Eighth American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies
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- American Nuclear Society
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- 2012
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- July 23-26
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- San Diego, CA, USA
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Description
The Human System Simulation Laboratory (HSSL) at the Idaho National Laboratory is one of few facilities of its kind that allows human factors researchers to evaluate various aspects of human performance and human system interaction for proposed reactor designs and upgrades. A basic system architecture, physical configuration and simulation capability were established to enable human factors researchers to support multiple, simultaneous simulations and also different power plant technologies. Although still evolving in terms of its technical and functional architecture, the HSSL is already proving its worth in supporting current and future nuclear industry needs for light water reactor sustainability and small modular reactors. The evolution of the HSSL is focused on continual physical and functional refinement to make it a fully equipped, reconfigurable facility where advanced research, testing and validation studies can be conducted on a wider range of reactor technologies. This requires the implementation of additional plant models to produce empirical research data on human performance with emerging human-system interaction technologies. Additional beneficiaries of this information include system designers and HRA practitioners. To ensure that results of control room crew studies will be generalizable to the existing and evolving fleet of US reactors, future expansion of the HSSL may also include other SMR plant models, plant-specific simulators and a generic plant model aligned to the current generation of pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and future advanced reactor designs. Collaboration with industry partners is also proving to be a vital component of the facility as this helps to establish a formal basis for current and future human performance experiments to support nuclear industry objectives. A long-range Program Plan has been developed for the HSSL to ensure that the facility will support not only the Department of Energy’s Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program, but also to provide human factors guidance for all future developments of the nuclear industry.
Articles
Hugo, Jacques, Blanc, Katya Le, Gertman, David (2012): The Development of a Human System Simulation Laboratory: Strategic Direction. In: Proceedings of the Eighth American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies July 23-26, 2012, San Diego, CA, USA. pp. 10. https://meetings.ans.org/npic-hmit/2012/Welcome.html
Hugo, Jacques (2012): Computational Human Performance Modeling for Alarm System Design. In: Proceedings of the Eighth American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies July 23-26, 2012, San Diego, CA, USA. pp. 12.
Hugo, Jacques, Gertman, David (2012): The Use of Computational Human Performance Modeling as Task Analysis Tool. In: Proceedings of the Eighth American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies July 23-26, 2012, San Diego, CA, USA. pp. 12.