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Guidelines for Control Room Design Reviews (NUREG-0700, Revision 0)

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Manuscript Completed: August 1981
Date Published: September 1981

Division of Human Factors Safety
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001

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Abstract

These Guidelines for Control Room Design Reviews provide the NRC staff guidance that should be followed in accomplishing the detailed control room design review described in Task I.D.1 of NUREG-0660, the NRC Action Plan. Guidance includes recommendations for planning the review process, review procedures, the assessment of identified human engineering discrepancies to select those that should be corrected, implementation of design improvements, and reporting. Detailed human engineering guidelines are included which provide benchmarks for the human factors quality of specific control room design features.

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