
3. Human-machine interface
3.1 Organization of the driving team and driving resources
The choices made by EDF with regard to nuclear units, as presented above, were :
to favour manual over automatic driving;
seek human redundancy in the organization of operating teams to detect and correct malfunctions;
encourage the presence of operators who are not physics specialists, but who are trained to apply procedures that cover a wide range of possible incidents and accidents.
These basic principles led to the definition of a driving team organization per pair of units comprising, in normal periods :
a farm manager ;...
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Manufacturers and suppliers
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Atos Origin http://www.atosorigin.com
EDF – Direction de la Production Transports http://www.edf.fr
Cegelec http://www.cegelec.fr
...Testing laboratories
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Laboratoire central des industries électriques (LCIE) http://www.lcie.fr
Société pour le perfectionnement des matériels et équipements aérospaciaux (SOPEMEA) http://www.sopemea.fr
Standardization
Commission Électrotechnique Internationale (CEI) http://www.iec.ch
- Conception des salles de commande des centrales nucléaires de puissance. - CEI 60964 - 3-1989
- Centrales nucléaires de puissance. Salles de commande. Commandes opérateurs. - CEI 61227 - 6-1993
- Centrales nucléaires de puissance. Salle de commande principale....
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