Investigating the effect of communication characteristics on crew performance under the simulated emergency condition of nuclear power plants

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 101, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-13

  Park, Jinkyun ^a   Jung, Wondea ^a   Yang, Joon Eon ^a  

^a Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cognitively demanding situation; Crew communication; Crew performance; Nuclear power plant; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVELY DEMANDING SITUATION; CREW PERFORMANCE; EMERGENCY CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE DATA; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84862817323     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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