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There is wide agreement throughout the commercial nuclear industry that there is a severe shortage of data on man-machine success or failure rates. At the same time, the need to adequately integrate human performance and systems analysis in the evaluation of nuclear power plant availability and safety is recognized as a dominant need. Therefore, if we are to address successfully the industry’s current requirements, we must optimize the use of all existing data. This paper discusses the problem and suggests useful ways of utilizing available nuclear data and presents a conceptual format to better collect actuarial data on the most critical, from a safety perspective, aspects of the man-machine interface in a nuclear power plant.
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Hall, R.E. (1984). Quantification of Human Performance Through the use of Nuclear Power Plant Experience. In: Waller, R.A., Covello, V.T. (eds) Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk Analysis. Advances in Risk Analysis, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1818-8_19
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