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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Technical Session|Cosponsored by PSA
Tuesday, July 18, 2023|10:00–11:45AM EDT|Rotunda
Session Chair:
Jooyoung Park
Alternate Chair:
Ronald L. Boring
Session Organizer:
Jonghyun Kim
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Why do Human-Machine Teams Fail: Investigating Failure Mechanisms in Human Reliability Analysis
10:00–10:25AM EDT
Vincent Philip Paglioni (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Camille S. Levine (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ahmad Al-Douri (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
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Causal Pathways Leading to Human Failure Events in Information-Gathering System Response Activities
10:25–10:50AM EDT
Camille S. Levine (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Ahmad Al-Douri (Univ. Maryland, College Park), Katrina M. Groth (Univ. Maryland, College Park)
Advanced Human-System Interface Risk Analysis Based on Redundancy-Guided Systems-Theoretic Hazard Analysis and Human Reliability Analysis
10:50–11:15AM EDT
Jooyoung Park (INL), Edward Chen (NCSU), Han Bao (INL), Tate Shorthill (Univ. Pittsburgh), Jisuk Kim (INL), Sai Zhang (INL), Ronald Boring (INL)
HAMSTER -- A New EDF HRA-Type C Methodology
11:15–11:40AM EDT
Jean-François Enjolras (EDF Technical Direction), Anne Gailleton (EDF Technical Direction)
Presented by Cécile Luzior (EDF)
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