The impact of INPO on plant performance and operations

The goal of this research was to understand the effect that a voluntary regulatory body, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), has on the nuclear industry. Understanding this information exchange sector is a step towards understanding the dynamics of reform in a high risk industry. This was done through creating a model of the information flow through the industry and analyzing the results. This model shows how INPO interacts with the nuclear industry, and how they run their own organization. Once this model had been created, it was linked to an existing model of a nuclear power utility. This updated model gave a more accurate depiction of the learning effect that INPO has on the utility's performance and operations. The program used to create these computer simulation models was VENSIM, a systems dynamics utility by Ventana Systems.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Author dc:creator

• Khan, Humera

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Kent F. Hansen, Nelson Repenning, and Richard Tabors.

• Nuclear Engineering.
• Technology and Policy Program.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/47901

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