An Approach to Addressing the Human Factors Engineering Issues Related to Back-fitting Digital Instrumentation and Control Technology Into Existing Nuclear Power Plants

摘要

This paper looks at the problems and issues related to up-grading the I&C in an existing nuclear power plant, from the perspective of addressing the requisite human factors requirements. Specifically, it reviews the current NRC documents related to human factors engineering from the perspective of a vendor attempting to apply the guidance in the course of a commercial product design process, considers the issues related to phasing the implementation, looks at the capabilities of networking systems to meet all of these requirements, and suggests a method for improving the management of the requisite regulatory review.