NUREG/CR-1580, Notice of Availability of Draft NUREG/CR-1580, Human Engineering Guide to Control Room Evaluation
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| Issue date: | 08/12/1980 |
| From: | Tondi D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT HUMAN ENGINEERING GUIDE TO CONTROL ROOM EVALUATION Notice is given that the Commission's Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation has published a draft Human Engineering Guide to Control Room Evaluation which was prepared for the Commission by the Essex Corporation of Alexandria, Virginia.
Identified as NUREG/CR-1580, the draft is available for inspection by the pub-lic in the Comission's Public Document Room at 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., and in all other Comission Local Public Document Rooms. This document is a draft version of the control room design review guidelines described in Task 1.0 of the NRC Action Plan developed as a result of the TMI-2 Accident, NUREG-0660. The guidelines are intended to provide guidance for a detailed con-trol room design review to identify and correct design deficiencies. This re-view will be performed by all operating reactor licensees and applicants for operating licenses.
Review subjects include an assessment of control room layout, the adequacy of the information provided, the arrangement and identifica-tion of important controls and instrumentation displays, the usefulness of the audio and visual alarm systems, the information recording and recall capability, the control room environment, and other considerations of human factors that have an impact on operator effectiveness.
Interested persons may submit coments on the draft guidelines for the Comission's consideration.
Operating reactor licensees, applicants for 8009040
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operating licenses, and designated Federal agencies and organizations with experience in human factors analysis are being provided with copies of the draft guidelines. Coments on the draft guidelines received by the Comission will be made available for public inspection at the Comission's Public Docu-ment Room in Washington, D.C.
Upon consideration of coments submitted with respect to the. draft guidelines, the NRC will prepare final guidelines, the availability of which will be published in the Federal Register.
The final guidelines will be identified as NUREG-0700.
The Comission staff plans to meet with operating reactor licensees and applicants for operating licenses, human factor engineering experts, and other interested parties at some time after coments on the draft guidelines have been received, but prior to publication of the final guidelines. The 1
purpose of these meetings will be to review the guidelines in the context of the Comission's evaluation criteria that are to be developed and used by the Comission staff to judge the acceptability of the design reviews performed and the design modifications implemented. Notice of these meetings will be published in the Federal Register.
Coments on the draft Human Engineering Guide to Control Room Evaluation should be addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C.. 20555, Attention: Director, Division of Human Factors Safety. Coments are due by September 12, 1980.
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i Dated at Bethesda, Maryland, this /[ day of go ok1980.
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