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Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety
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Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety

by Gregory Rolina
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
294 pages
9h 59m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Human and Organizational Factors in Nuclear Safety
Conclusion to Part One: Historical and
Institutional Influences of Human Factors
Assessments?
This historical review of nuclear safety institutions and principles and of the
incorporation of human factors in the production of assessments is ripe with
lessons. In the span of fifty years, the role of the nuclear safety expert and the
conditions under which they carry out their work have changed considerably.
The physicist who was involved in the start-up and operation of new reactors
gradually morphed into the expert statutorily separate from licensees, whose
activity could be guided by a few key policy principles and governed by a set of
procedures. Let us review three points that seem especially important:
The resonance of defense in depth ...
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ISBN: 9781138000353