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Members are devoted to applying nuclear science and engineering technologies involving isotopes, radiation applications, and associated equipment in scientific research, development, and industrial processes. Their interests lie primarily in education, industrial uses, biology, medicine, and health physics. Division committees include Analytical Applications of Isotopes and Radiation, Biology and Medicine, Radiation Applications, Radiation Sources and Detection, and Thermal Power Sources.
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NRC okays construction permits for Hermes 2 test facility
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced yesterday that it has directed staff to issue construction permits to Kairos Power for the company's proposed Hermes 2 nonpower test reactor facility to be built at the Heritage Center Industrial Park in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The permits authorize Kairos to build a facility with two 35-MWt test reactors that would use molten salt to cool the reactor cores.
Yochan Kim, Jinkyun Park, Mary Presley
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 197 | Number 11 | November 2023 | Pages 2787-2799
PSA 2021 Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2118481
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
With the development of new digital human-machine interfaces, many discussions in the nuclear industry have focused on the human factors issues that arise from the interfaces. To quantitatively characterize the effects of the interfaces on human reliability, we collected empirical data from a full-scope simulator of the APR1400 nuclear power plant using the Human Reliability Extraction (HuREX) framework. From the numerous variables in the collected data describing the contexts of the performance influencing factors (PIFs), including crew experience, task complexity, and procedure quality, the significant variables were identified by three techniques comprising both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Based on the selected variables, the nominal error probabilities and PIF multipliers were then estimated by logistic regression analysis. This paper interprets the meanings of the estimates and discusses the advantages of the employed variable selection techniques.