Author/Authors :
BernardPapin، نويسنده , , PatrickQuellien، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
Withtheincreasingreliabilityofthemoderntechnology,thehumancontributiontotheglobalriskintheoperationofindustrialsystemsisbecomingmoreandmoresignificant:inthenuclearreactoroperation,forexample,arecentProbabilisticSafetyAssessmentofthiscontributionisabout25%oftheprobabilityofcoredamage,allsituationsconsidered.
ThisurgesthedesignersoffuturenuclearreactorstoconsidertheminimizationofthisHumanFactor(HF)contribution,attheveryearlystageoftheirdesign:theexperiencefeedbackshowsthatthisisindeedatthisstagethatthefundamentaldesignoptions,mostimpactingthehumanreliabilityinoperation,arefixed.
Theproblemisthatattheseearlydesignstages,itisalsoquiteimpossibletoapplyformalhumanreliabilitymethodstosupportthisHFoptimisation,whilethepreciseoperatingconditionsofthereactorarenotyetknowninenoughdetails.
Inthispaper,anotherapproachoftheHFevaluationispresented.ThismethodfortheearlyassessmentoftheHFimpactontheplantsafetyisproposedforthecomparisonofvariousadvancedreactorconceptscurrentlybeingdesignedwithintheframeoftheinternationalGENERATIONIVinitiative.
