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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Cristina Corrales, Javier Gil, Mateo Ramos (Tecnatom S.A.)
Proceedings | Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technolgies (NPIC&HMIT 2019) | Orlando, FL, February 9-14, 2019 | Pages 1485-1494
Computerized procedures systems seem to be the next digital technology to enter day to day plant operations. But although this has been truth for a while now, few implementations of them have been successful, even when done in new plants with highly digitized control rooms that seem to constitute a more natural environment for them. The human performance benefits of a computerized procedure system have been widely documented in the nuclear industry but are still difficult to quantify. Implementation projects and maintenance of the procedures once computerized are still challenging and the uncertain return of investment is preventing the adoption of this systems by the existing plants. The research documented in this paper has been obtained by gathering information from different sources to understand the benefits that a computerized procedure system might bring for nuclear power plants and see if they outweigh the cost and perceived risks of moving from paper to digital.