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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
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12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Ronald L. Boring (INL)
Alternate Chair:
Paula Savioja
Session Organizer:
Jamie B. Coble
Staff Producer:
Mary Tong (ANS)
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A Microworld Framework for Advanced Control Room Design
Ronald L. Boring (INL), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL), Roger Lew (Univ. of Idaho), Anna C. Hall (Braveheart Solutions)
Paper
User-Centered Scalability: Creating Cross-System Visualizations for Nuclear Power Applications
Torrey Mortenson (INL)
Operator Preferences in an Advanced Nuclear Control Operating Room
Clara Alivisatos (Univ. of California Berkeley), Christopher Poresky (Univ. of California Berkeley), Per F. Peterson (Univ. of California Berkeley), Ronald L. Boring (INL), Thomas A. Ulrich (INL)
Systems-Theoretic Hazard Analysis of Digital Human-System Interface Relevant to Reactor Trip
Edward Chen (North Carolina State Univ.), Nam T. Dinh (North Carolina State Univ.), Han Bao (INL), Hongbin Zhang (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
Guiding Transformation: The Role of a Design Philosophy
Zachary A. Spielman (INL), Casey Kovesdi (INL), Katya LeBlanc (INL)
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