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Human Performance Modeling for Dynamic Human Reliability Analysis

Boring, Ronald Laurids·Joe, Jeffrey Clark·Mandelli, Diego
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Part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Light Water Reac- tor Sustainability (LWRS) Program, the Risk-Informed Safety Margin Charac- terization (RISMC) Pathway develops approaches to estimating and managing safety margins. RISMC simulations pair deterministic plant physics models with probabilistic risk models. As human interactions are an essential element of plant risk, it is necessary to integrate human actions into the RISMC risk framework. In this paper, we review simulation based and non simulation based human reliability analysis (HRA) methods. This paper summarizes the founda- tional information needed to develop a feasible approach to modeling human in- teractions in RISMC simulations.

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Boring, Ronald Laurids, Joe, Jeffrey Clark, Mandelli, Diego. 2015-08-01. Human Performance Modeling for Dynamic Human Reliability Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21073-5_23

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