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The spark of the Super: Teller–Ulam and the birth of the H-bomb—rivalry, credit, and legacy at 75 years
In early 1951, Los Alamos scientists Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam devised a breakthrough that would lead to the hydrogen bomb [1]. Their design gave the United States an initial advantage in the Cold War, though comparable progress was soon achieved independently in the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session|Cosponsored by PSA
Monday, July 17, 2023|1:00–2:45PM EDT|301A
Session Chair:
Mary R. Presley
Alternate Chair:
Ronald L. Boring
Session Organizer:
Lou Martinez Sancho
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Application of Human Reliability Analysis to DI&C Control Room Modernization
1:00–1:25PM EDT
Jing Xing (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Y. James Chang (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
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A Unified Approach: Human Factors, Human Reliability and Human Performance Data for Digital Systems
1:25–1:50PM EDT
Mary Presley (EPRI), Matt Gibson (EPRI)
Time-Dependent Human Reliability of Nuclear Power Plants with Digital Interfaces
1:50–2:15PM EDT
Wondea Jung (KAERI)
Preliminary Empirical Findings on Dependency from a Simulator Study
2:15–2:40PM EDT
Ronald Boring (INL), Thomas Ulrich (INL), Roger Lew (Univ. Idaho), Anna Hall (INL), Jooyoung Park (INL), Jisuk Kim (INL)
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