Title :
A software tool for incorporating operator response into nuclear plant accident analysis
Author :
Hardy, Charles R. ; May, Randall S. ; Singh, Avtar
Author_Institution :
Levy (S.) Inc., Campbell, CA, USA
fDate :
8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Analysis of nuclear power plant accidents must account for the actions taken by plant operators. EPRI and several collaborating utilities are sponsoring development of a Nuclear Operator Response Modeling and Analysis Tool (NORMAT) as a software environment for integrating the effects of operator actions into accident analyses, and as a test bed for evaluating the impact of procedures and guidelines. Knowledge based techniques and tools are used for modeling procedures and operator response, and MAAP is used as a reference code for plant accident analysis
Keywords :
accidents; fission reactor safety; human factors; nuclear engineering computing; programming environments; MAAP; NORMAT; Nuclear Operator Response Modeling and Analysis Tool; accident analysis; nuclear plant; operator response; software environment; software tool; Accidents; Analytical models; Automatic control; Collaborative tools; Delay; Expert systems; Guidelines; Power generation; Software tools; User interfaces;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
