Article | REF: BN3421 V1

Operating procedures and man-machine interface

Authors: Bernard APPELL, Yvon CHAMBON

Publication date: July 10, 1998

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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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