Abstract
In the UK, as elsewhere, probabilistic safety assessments (PSAs) are carried out to assure the safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs). Since human error and recovery are key attributes of a risk assessment approach, Human Reliability Assessment (HRA) approaches are used to account for the human contribution (positive as well as negative) to risk. In the UK, for the past decade, the principal tool used to quantify the reliabilities of human interactions has been the Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique (HEART) [1,2].
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- Human Error
- Risk Assessment Approach
- Operator Inexperience
- Probabilistic Safety Assessment
- Human Error Probability
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Kirwan, B., Gibson, H., Kennedy, R., Edmunds, J., Cooksley, G., Umbers, I. (2004). Nuclear Action Reliability Assessment (NARA): A Data-Based HRA Tool. In: Spitzer, C., Schmocker, U., Dang, V.N. (eds) Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-410-4_195
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