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Groundwater data pave the way for Environmental Management Disposal Facility at Oak Ridge
Results of a two-year study of groundwater levels at the site of the planned Environmental Management Disposal Facility (EMDF) in Oak Ridge, Tenn., have been released, revealing that the levels fell at a slower-than-expected rate. The collection of data on groundwater levels during two wet seasons, conducted by the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management and the contractor United Cleanup Oak Ridge, formed the core of a groundwater field demonstration study which will help inform the final design of the EMDF landfill.
Jun Kawai, Yuto Horiuchi (NSR)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 499-506
As severity of accidents increases in beyond-design basis events (B-DBEs) conditions, ambiguity of situations increases among operators and interactions between plant systems/components and operators become more complicated. Three issues were recognized and a framework composed of three corresponding methods was introduced to address the issues on applying Human Factors Engineering (HFE) review for B-DBE conditions. The enhancing framework was applied to a scenario, Total loss of Feed Water with Misleading Indicator, as a trial. The result of the trial showed that the enhancing framework could be applied as far as task analysis was feasible for B-DBE conditions with relevant human reliability analysis method.