• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.379-386
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• 2012

A symptom-based procedure with a critical safety function monitoring system has been established to reduce the operator's diagnosis and cognitive burden since the Three-Mile Island (TMI) accident. However, it has been reported that a symptom-based procedure also requires an operator's cognitive efforts to cope with off-normal events. This can be caused by mismatches between a static model, an emergency operating procedure (EOP), and a dynamic process, the nature of an ongoing situation. The purpose of this study is to share the evidence of mismatches that may result in an excessive cognitive burden in conducting EOPs. For this purpose, we analyzed simulated emergency operation records and observed some operator behaviors during the EOP operation: continuous steps, improper description, parameter check at a fixed time, decision by information previously obtained, execution complexity, operation by the operator's knowledge, notes and cautions, and a foldout page. Since observations in this study are comparable to the results of an existing study, it is expected that the operational behaviors observed in this study are generic features of operators who have to cope with a dynamic situation using a static procedure.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.118-126
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• 2005

While emergency operating procedures (EOPs) occupy an important role in the management of various abnormal situations in nuclear power plants (NPPs), current technology for the validation of EOPs still largely depends on manual review. A validation method for EOPs of NPPs is thus proposed based on dynamic multi-level flow modeling (MFM). The MFM modeling procedure and the EOP validation procedure are developed and provided in the paper. Application of the proposed method to EOPs of an actual NPP shows that the proposed method provides an efficient means of validating EOPs. It is also found that the information on state transitions in MFM models during the management of abnormal situations is also useful for further analysis on EOPs including their optimization.

• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 2003년도 추계학술발표대회 요약집
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• pp.199-199
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• 2003

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2013

Emergency operating procedures(EOPs) of nuclear power plants should be described considering the cognitive capability and limitation of operators and provide appropriate information in the aspect of human factors. Procedures which doesn't consider cognitive characteristics of operators can become causes of human errors. In previous researches, in order to reduce these problems related to the description of EOP, an improvement suggestion for EOP writer's guide has been proposed, which is reflected human factors aspects that should be considered when describing EOPs. The proposed items, however, have a necessity to be validated because it was listed from various documents such as standards and guidelines without any special validation process. For that reason, in this study, a validation process were performed to show that procedures, which are described in compliance with the requirement items proposed in the improved EOP writer's guide, have positive effects in the aspects of human errors and performance comparing with previous procedures. Experiments were performed to compare the performances of two tasks which are described in compliance with each writer's guide of before and after the improvement During each task was performed in experiments, changes of physiological responses such as EEG and ECG were measured to evaluate the cognitive workload and the stress of operators in each task. And also, as the performance, frequencies of errors and cognition speeds of each task were evaluated. In the results of the experiment, the portions of the ${\beta}$ wave decreased in the tasks overall after the improvement. In the case of ECG, change rates of the mean of R-R interval were decreased in the tasks after improvement. In the results of the performance, the cognition and the response time of the tasks after the improvement were predominant with statistical significancies. Error times in the tasks after improvement were decreased or same to the tasks before improvement. Conclusively, it was validated that the procedures were described in compliance with the improved EOP writer's guide had effects on the reduction of human errors and improvement of performance.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.653-662
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• 2012

We evaluate the technical and organizational aspects of the severe accident management guideline (SAMG), focusing on the decision-making process in the technical support center (TSC). From the technical aspects, we conclude that the present SAMG is a good tool that can assist the TSC in efficiently managing probable severe accidents. However, we suggest that the clear separation of the emergency operating procedure (EOP) and SAMG, which shifts plant control from the main control room (MCR) to the TSC, might not be an effective framework from an organizational perspective. Studies on organizational behavior demonstrate that a group decision made under a risky situation might be polarized in either a risky or cautious way. We recognize that we cannot be free from the polarization effect since the current SAMG recommends that the TSC evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of strategies to be implemented and choose the best one based on a group decision process. Illustrative examples of accident management under risky conditions are recapitulated from previous studies of the authors and we propose that the SAMG should be more proceduralized to remove this polarization from the decision-making process.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.37-50
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• 1993

완전급수상실사고 및 복구가정의 사고전개와 열수력학적 거동을 평가하기 위해 RELAP5/MOD3 계산을 수행하고 LOFT L9-l/L3-3 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 또한 본 사고의 주요 열수력 현상에 대한 코드의 예측도를 평가하였다. 본 연구의 결과로서 가압기 수위가 만수위에 도달할 때까지 살수를 이용한 압력 제어, 가압기 압력방출 밸브를 통한 가압방지, 증기발생기 재충수에 의한 이차측 열제거 능력의 재확보, 지속적인 자연순환에 의한 효과적인 일차계통의 냉각등이 이루어 질 수 있고 이 과정중 노심노출은 나타나지 않음이 밝혀졌다. 또한 현재의 현상-중심 비상운전절차서 특히 과압방지성능 및 증기발생기 회복절차 등의 유효성을 입증하기 위해서는 발전소 고유한 평가가 필요함이 밝혀졌다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제16권7호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2015

우리나라는 국토의 70% 이상이 산지로 되어 있어 지속적인 도시화에 따른 산지 개발이 필수불가결한 요소이므로 위험요인에 대한 대응기술 개발이 필수적이며 토사재해 예방을 위한 기준과 매뉴얼 정립이 필요하다. 토사재해와 관련된 국가법령에서는 재난유형에 따라 위기관리 매뉴얼을 작성 운용하게 되어 있지만, 도심지 토사재해에 대한 위기관리 표준매뉴얼, 위기대응 실무매뉴얼 및 현장조치 행동매뉴얼이 아직까지 없는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 기존의 풍수해 표준 및 실무매뉴얼 분석을 통하여 우리나라법으로 정해져 있는 사항이지만 아직까지 도심지 토사재해 분야에서 명확하게 정립되지 못한 부분에 대한 개선 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 주요 개선 방안은 다음과 같은 7가지로 나타낼 수 있다. 1) 도심지 토사재해에 적용 가능한 매뉴얼 제작이 필요하다. 2) 평상시 주관기관과 유관기관과의 수직적 수평적 상시교류 및 협력이 강화 구축되어 있어야 한다. 3) 개선되는 도심지 토사재해 매뉴얼은 각각의 공무원들이 실제 행동할 수 있는 행동절차(SOP) 매뉴얼이 필요하다. 4) 국민안전처에서 선정한 13가지의 항목을 중심으로 도심지 토사재해에 대한 필요한 항목을 우선적으로 선정해야 한다. 5) 이해할 수 있도록 도식화할 필요가 있다. 6) 주요 항목들을 체크리스트로 만들어서 위급상황 시 실무에 적용되도록 해야 한다. 7) 분기별로 1회 이상의 교육훈련이 필요하다.