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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
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Chapter 4. The Analysis of Incidents at Artémis
“There is no science of the accident.”
Aristotle
Like the assessment of the Minotaure reactor, the second case we studied
concerned a research facility operated by the CEA and named Artémis (cf.
Sidebar 14). However, in this case, the human factors experts’ assessment was
quite different in terms of the resources used and its conclusions. Following an
in-depth investigation of two incidents that occurred in 2004 and 2005, the
expert mapped out the chronology and the “causal relationship” of each. He
expressed his opinion on the progress of the corrective actions the licensee had
undertaken to implement and proposed others.
Between 1999 and 2004, six incidents occurred at Artémis. A seventh ...
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