Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program A Reference Plan for Control Room Modernization: Planning and Analysis Phase

Jacques Hugo ; Ronald Boring ; Lew Hanes ; Kenneth Thomas

关键词: control room;    function allocation;    functional requirements analysis;    human factors engineering;    human system interface;    modernization;    operating experience review;    task analysis;    upgrade;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1129931
RP-ID  :  INL/EXT-13-30109
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1129931

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The U.S. Department of Energy???s Light Water Reactor Sustainability (LWRS) program is collaborating with a U.S. nuclear utility to bring about a systematic fleet-wide control room modernization. To facilitate this upgrade, a new distributed control system (DCS) is being introduced into the control rooms of these plants. The DCS will upgrade the legacy plant process computer and emergency response facility information system. In addition, the DCS will replace an existing analog turbine control system with a display-based system. With technology upgrades comes the opportunity to improve the overall human-system interaction between the operators and the control room. To optimize operator performance, the LWRS Control Room Modernization research team followed a human-centered approach published by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. NUREG-0711, Rev. 3, Human Factors Engineering Program Review Model (O???Hara et al., 2012), prescribes four phases for human factors engineering. This report provides examples of the first phase, Planning and Analysis. The three elements of Planning and Analysis in NUREG-0711 that are most crucial to initiating control room upgrades are: ??? Operating Experience Review: Identifies opportunities for improvement in the existing system and provides lessons learned from implemented systems. ??? Function Analysis and Allocation: Identifies which functions at the plant may be optimally handled by the DCS vs. the operators. ??? Task Analysis: Identifies how tasks might be optimized for the operators. Each of these elements is covered in a separate chapter. Examples are drawn from workshops with reactor operators that were conducted at the LWRS Human System Simulation Laboratory HSSL and at the respective plants. The findings in this report represent generalized accounts of more detailed proprietary reports produced for the utility for each plant. The goal of this LWRS report is to disseminate the technique and provide examples sufficient to serve as a template for other utilities??? projects for control room modernization.