Virtual simulation of a nuclear power plant's control room as a tool for ergonomic evaluation

Progress in Nuclear Energy

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 8-15

  Gatto, Leandro Barbosa S ^a   Mól, Antônio Carlos A ^a,b,c   Luquetti Dos Santos, Isaac J A ^a   Jorge, Carlos Alexandre F ^a   Legey, Ana Paula ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

^b Inst Nac de Cie e Tecnologia de Reatores Nucleares Inovadores CNPq   (Brazil)

^c GAMA FILHO UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Control room; Ergonomics evaluation; Licensing; Nuclear power plant; Postulated accidents; Virtual simulation

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMIC EVALUATION; GAME ENGINE; POSTULATED ACCIDENTS; PROTOTYPING DESIGNS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS; VIRTUAL MODELING; VIRTUAL SIMULATIONS;

CONTROL ROOMS (POWER PLANTS); NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTOR LICENSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 84872725289     PISSN: 01491970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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