Nuclear Safety II Research Group

Development of information system concepts for ensuring safety of large and complex technological systems

Research purposes
The rapid development and change in production and distribution systems and information technologies highly integrates various systems comprising society and strongly couple each others. Even an event, having been thought to be confined within a single system, very rapidly propagates and causes impacts on others. How can we ensure safety of the technological system in such a situation? We think that the keys to this question are innovative information system enabling actors to share meanings, functional structure and boundaries for safe operation behind the phenomena. Toward this goal, this research group is conducting studies to develop the information system concepts applicable to domains such as system operation, management in organization and information exchange in public, by doing experimental evaluation works on a nuclear reactor simulator and field studies.
Members
Name Affiliation Field of study Full/Part-time Fumiya Tanabe Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Cognitive Systems Engine Full-time Yukichi Yamaguchi Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Reactor Safety Research Full-time
Results (in English only)
◆ Interim evaluation report　[PDF:76kb] ● Download ■ Link ▲ In preparation Format Author, Title of the result, etc. Browse International conference Fumiya TANABE & Yukichi YAMAGUCHI, Cognitive Systems Enginee ring Analysis of JCO Criticality Accidennt in Tokaimura and Lessons Learned　for Safety Design and Management, IEA2003(Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, August, 2003 ■ International conference Yukichi YAMAGUCHI & Fumiya TANABE Creation and Evaluation of an Ecological Interface System for Operation of Nuclear Reactor System, Enlarged Halden Programme Group Meeting, September, 2002 ■ International conference Yukichi YAMAGUCHI & Fumiya TANABE, Integration of Ecological Approach into a NPP Control Room and It's　Empirical Evaluation, International Workshop Meetimg on Innovative Human-System Interfaces and Their Evaluation, September, 2003 ■ International conference Fumiya TANABE & Yukichi YAMAGUCHI, Analysis of the JCO Criticality Accident and Lessons Learned for Safety Design and Management , ICNPO-�W(International Conf. on Human Factors Research in Nuclear Power Operation, September, 2002 ▲ International conference Fumiya TANABE & Yukichi YAMAGUCHI, Cognitive Systems Engineering Analysis of JCO Criticality Accidennt in Tokaimura and Lessons Learned, 46th Annual Mtg. of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, October, 2002 ▲ Book Fumiya TANABE & Yukichi YAMAGUCHI, An Analysis of JCO Criticality Accident and Lessons Learned for Safety Design and Management, Challenge and Response-New Demands for Safety in Nuclear Operation, editted by Wilpert et al. , Taylor & Francis, in printing, 2004 ▲
More information	http://www2.tokai.jaeri.go.jp/rsocio/SOTES_English.htm (in English)