Measuring Situation Awareness of Operating Team in Different Main Control Room Environments of Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear Engineering and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 153-163

  Lee, Seung Woo ^a   Kim, Ar Ryum ^a   Park, Jinkyun ^b   Kang, Hyun Gook ^a   Seong, Poong Hyun ^a  

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

^b Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human performance; Main control room; Operating team; Safety critical system; Situation awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958765442     PISSN: 17385733     EISSN: 2234358X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.net.2015.09.008     Document Type: Article

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