A strategy for examining human reliability aspects of plant security

The authors present a strategy for developing a long-term research plan for human factors issues which can adversely affect safeguards at nuclear power plants. It was developed to prioritize and propose research for appropriately addressing nuclear power-plant safeguard needs. The strategy consists of a series of parts, the first of which identifies and ranks human factors issues affecting the quality of nuclear power-plant safeguards in terms of their importance. The second part involves determining the feasibility of conducting research in the areas found to be important to nuclear power-plant safeguards. Research efforts are then developed and prioritized into main program elements according to the importance of human-factors issue areas derived in the first part and the feasibility of research determined in the second part.<>