Develop a framework of human reliability analysis to evaluate the human error probability in DMCR of NPPs

Abstract

ABSTRACT Human reliability analysis (HRA) has an important effect on the safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs). However, the operating environment in the digital main control room of NPPs has changed with the application of digital interface. Therefore, this paper developed a framework of HRA to evaluate human error probability (HEP) under the condition of digital interface control. Firstly, the hierarchical task analysis method was used to decompose the task to determine a series of sub-tasks. Secondly, the HEPs of diagnosis and execution were calculated based on the standardized plant analysis risk-human reliability analysis method. Finally, the final HEP of task was calculated by considering the recovery failure probability of human error. The experimental results showed that the HEP evaluation result of the developed method was consistent with the statistical method result. It indicated that the developed HRA method can be used to evaluate the HEP of task.