ABSTRACT
An EU TACIS Project, entitled Upgrading of Control Room Panels, is in progress at Leningrad Nuclear Power Station in the Russian Federation. The main work of the project is to provide a prototyping and evaluation facility based on the existing full-scope training simulator. The Nuclear Industry was forced to focus sharply on the control room interface by events at the Three Mile Island (TMI) plant in 1979. At TMI, a near catastrophic accident was blamed largely on the fact that the experienced team of operators could not interpret plant condition from the presented array of information. The use of computer screens, typically in a bank of several dedicated monitors accessed by a function keyboard, forced the operator to gather information in a serial manner, screen by screen, rather than being able to scan the wide array of information shown on the old panels.
