Development of an evaluation method for the quality of NPP MCR operators' communication using Work Domain Analysis (WDA)

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1264-1273

  Jang, Inseok ^a   Park, Jinkyun ^b   Seong, Poonghyun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Communication quality; NPP MCR operators; Work Domain Analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION FAILURE; COMMUNICATION QUALITY; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; DECOMPOSITION SPACE; EVALUATION CRITERIA; EVALUATION METHOD; FIELD SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION; MAIN CONTROL ROOM; NPP MCR OPERATORS; RAILWAY INDUSTRY; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; WORK DEMANDS; WORK DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMMUNICATION; INDUSTRIAL RAILROADS; INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR ACCIDENTS; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79953746838     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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