Measuring Situation Awareness of Operating Team in Different Main Control Room Environments of Nuclear Power Plants

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Environments in nuclear power plants (NPPs) are changing as the design of instrumentation and control systems for NPPs is rapidly moving toward fully digital instrumentation and control, and modern computer techniques are gradually introduced into main control rooms (MCRs). Within the context of these environmental changes, the level of performance of operators in a digital MCR is a major concern. Situation awareness (SA), which is used within human factors research to explain to what extent operators of safety-critical systems know what is transpiring in the system and the environment, is considered a prerequisite factor to guarantee the safe operation of NPPs. However, the safe operation of NPPs can be guaranteed through a team effort. In this regard, the operating team's SA in a conventional and digital MCR should be measured in order to assess whether the new design features implemented in a digital MCR affect this parameter. This paper explains the team SA measurement method used in this study and the results of applying this measurement method to operating teams in different MCR environments. The paper also discusses several empirical lessons learned from the results.
Publisher
KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
Issue Date
2016-02
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

ADVANCED MCR; PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION; CREW

Citation

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, v.48, no.1, pp.153 - 163

ISSN
1738-5733
DOI
10.1016/j.net.2015.09.008
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/207963
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NE-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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