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Panelists discuss U.S. path to criticality in ANS webinar
The American Nuclear Society recently hosted a panel discussion featuring prominent figures from the nuclear sector who discussed the industry’s ongoing push for criticality.
Yasir Arafat, chief technical officer of Aalo Atomics; Jordan Bramble, CEO of Antares Nuclear; and Rita Baranwal, chief nuclear officer of Radiant Industries, participated in the discussion and covered their recent progress in the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program. Nader Satvat, director of nuclear systems design at Kairos Power, gave an update on the company’s ongoing demonstration projects taking place outside of the landscape of DOE authorization.
Seunghwan Kim, Yochan Kim, Sun Yeong Choi, Wondea Jung, Jinkyun Park (KAERI)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 273-278
A fundamental issue of a human reliability analysis (HRA) in a nuclear power plant is a lack of empirical data in terms of both human error probability (HEP) and lower level information of human performance that can be used to estimate HEPs. As an effort to resolve this issue, KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) developed a framework, called HuREX (Human Reliability data Extraction), for data collection and analysis from a simulator to generate HRA data such as HEPs or correlations between performance shaping factors (PSFs) and the associated HEPs. The HuREX provides guidance on unsafe act (UA) identification, method and process of data collection.
To do this, the development of a computerized software interface is required to systematically collect simulator-based human performance data and subsequently enter/analyze/quantify various data obtained from the simulator. In addition, HRA database is also needed to effectively store the data generated in this process. In this research, we developed HuREX analysis supporting interface for HRA practitioner effectively conduct HRA data analysis by integrating various raw data (e.g., audio-visual records, plant parameters, operator's action logs) collected from the simulator.