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Disney World should have gone nuclear
There is extra significance to the American Nuclear Society holding its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, this past week. That’s because in 1967, the state of Florida passed a law allowing Disney World to build a nuclear power plant.
Cristina Corrales, Javier Gil, Mateo Ramos (Tecnatom S.A.)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1485-1494
Computerized procedures systems seem to be the next digital technology to enter day to day plant operations. But although this has been truth for a while now, few implementations of them have been successful, even when done in new plants with highly digitized control rooms that seem to constitute a more natural environment for them. The human performance benefits of a computerized procedure system have been widely documented in the nuclear industry but are still difficult to quantify. Implementation projects and maintenance of the procedures once computerized are still challenging and the uncertain return of investment is preventing the adoption of this systems by the existing plants. The research documented in this paper has been obtained by gathering information from different sources to understand the benefits that a computerized procedure system might bring for nuclear power plants and see if they outweigh the cost and perceived risks of moving from paper to digital.