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Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls
Improving task performance, system reliability, system and personnel safety, efficiency, and effectiveness are the division's main objectives. Its major areas of interest include task design, procedures, training, instrument and control layout and placement, stress control, anthropometrics, psychological input, and motivation.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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Four million nuclear jobs by 2050: Who will do them?
Industry leaders from around the globe met this month to discuss the talent development that will be necessary for the long-term success of the nuclear industry.
The International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management and Human Resources Development, hosted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, was held in Vienna earlier this month. Discussed there was the agency’s forecast for nuclear capacity to more than double—or hopefully triple—by 2050 and the requirement of more than four million professionals to support the industry.
Edmund T. Rumble, Boyer B. Chu
Nuclear Technology | Volume 79 | Number 1 | October 1987 | Pages 7-19
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A16001
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The application of systems reliability analysis (SRA) at nuclear power plants is broadening from its initial focus on safety-related design considerations to also include operations and maintenance (O&M) issues. Effective analysis of O&M questions requires increased resources and support such as accurate and timely plant feedback. A new approach has been developed that links data from plant information management systems with systems reliability tools and models. This approach is being automated in a software system named RAPID (Reliability Assessment Program with In-Plant Data). The objective of RAPID is to provide an environment for SRA with potential for dramatically improving the quality, quantity, and timeliness of plant reliability information available for decision making, especially for O&M issues. At the same time, the system should enhance engineering efficiency by automating access to such needed resources as plant data, logic models, and evaluation codes. A developmental version of RAPID is operational at the Arizona Nuclear Power Project, where features for supporting engineering activities are being demonstrated.