Characteristics of test and maintenance human errors leading to unplanned reactor trips in nuclear power plants

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 239, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2530-2536

  Kim, Jaewhan ^a   Park, Jinkyun ^a   Jung, Wondea ^a   Kim, Ji Tae ^b  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE; ERROR MODE; ERROR PATTERNS; ERROR TYPES; HUMAN ERROR PREDICTION; HUMAN ERRORS; HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; LOW POWER; POWER STATE; PREDICTIVITY; STARTUP OPERATIONS; WORK PROCEDURE;

BLOCK CODES; MAINTENANCE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ERRORS;

EID: 70349448554     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2009.06.010     Document Type: Article

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