TY - GEN
T1 - A Tool for Performing Link Analysis, Operational Sequence Analysis, and Workload Analysis to Support Nuclear Power Plant Control Room Modernization
AU - Kovesdi, Casey
AU - Le Blanc, Katya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Nuclear power continues to have an imperative role for the U.S.’s electricity generation. However, for these nuclear power plants (NPPs) to remain economically viable, new strategies for reducing operations and maintenance costs must be explored. The U.S. Department of Energy Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program is researching how to digitally transform existing analog and hybrid main control rooms into a fully integrated control room that addresses this challenge. The transformation will fundamentally change the conduct of operations for these U.S. NPPs. Human factors engineering has a vital role in this effort, where traditional task analysis methods are important in informing the design of advanced human-system interface displays. This work describes a preliminary tool to support task analysis for the development of these advanced displays. Details on the use of this tool, including the specific task analysis methods offered, are presented in this paper.
AB - Nuclear power continues to have an imperative role for the U.S.’s electricity generation. However, for these nuclear power plants (NPPs) to remain economically viable, new strategies for reducing operations and maintenance costs must be explored. The U.S. Department of Energy Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program is researching how to digitally transform existing analog and hybrid main control rooms into a fully integrated control room that addresses this challenge. The transformation will fundamentally change the conduct of operations for these U.S. NPPs. Human factors engineering has a vital role in this effort, where traditional task analysis methods are important in informing the design of advanced human-system interface displays. This work describes a preliminary tool to support task analysis for the development of these advanced displays. Details on the use of this tool, including the specific task analysis methods offered, are presented in this paper.
KW - Human factors engineering
KW - Nuclear power plant modernization
KW - Task analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088498752
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-51328-3_81
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-51328-3_81
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088498752
SN - 9783030513276
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 597
EP - 604
BT - Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Software and Systems Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing
A2 - Ahram, Tareq
PB - Springer
T2 - AHFE Virtual Conferences on Software and Systems Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence and Social Computing, 2020
Y2 - 16 July 2020 through 20 July 2020
ER -