Scrutinizing inter-relations between performance influencing factors and the performance of human operators pertaining to the emergency tasks of nuclear power plant - An explanatory study

Annals of Nuclear Energy

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2521-2532

  Park, Jinkyun ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human performance variation; Nuclear power plant; Performance influencing factor; Task complexity

Indexed keywords

HUMAN OPERATOR; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE INFLUENCING FACTORS; SAFE OPERATION; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK; TASK COMPLEXITY;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; NUCLEAR ENERGY;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 80051910142     PISSN: 03064549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anucene.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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