This book introduces advanced methods of computational and information systems, allowing readers to better understand the state-of-the-art design and implementation technology needed to maintain and enhance the safe operation of nuclear power plants. The subjects dealt with in the book are (i) Full digital instrumentation and control systems and human-machine interface technologies, (ii) Risk monitoring methods for large and complex plants, (iii) Condition monitors for plant components, (iv) Virtual and augmented reality for nuclear power plants, and (v) Software reliability verification and validation for nuclear power plants. The target readers of this book are Ph.D. students, researchers, and engineers in the field of nuclear power engineering.

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Editor: Hidekazu Yoshikawa, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University. Collaborations as the member of technical program committee, session chairs, etc. to the international conferences related with human-machine system researches: For the area of nuclear I&C and HMIT, he regularly attended ANS Topical Meeting series NPIC & HMIT (Penn State, Albuquerque, Knoxville, Las Vegas), ASME organized ICONE conference series (Brussels and Xi'an), and Korean Nuclear Society organized ISOFIC series (Chejudo and Taejon).

He also served as Technical Program Chair of NUTHOS-6 in 2004 in Nara, Japan. (NUTHOS series conference is related to reactor thermal-hydraulics and nuclear power plant operation).

Inhalt
Mitsubishi's computerized HSI and digital I&C system for PWR plants.- Design of an integrated operator support system for advanced NPP MCRs: Issues and perspectives.- Concept of advanced back-up control panel design of digital main control room.- U.S. Department of Energy instrumentation and controls technology research for advanced small modular reactors.- Application of FPGA to nuclear power plant I&C systems.- Prejob briefing using process data and tagout / line-up data on 2D drawings.- Study on modeling of an integrated control and condition monitoring system for nuclear power plants.- A toolkit for computerized operating procedure of complex industrial systems with IVI-COM technology.- Development and design guideline for computerized human-machine interface in the main control rooms of nuclear power plants.- Overview of system reliability analyses for PSA.- A systematic fault tree analysis based on multi-level flow modeling.- Reliability graph with general gates (RGGG): A novel method for reliability analysis.- Design of risk monitor for nuclear reactor plants.- Review of practicing Level-2 probabilistic safety analysis for Chinese nuclear power plants.- Risk monitoring for nuclear power plant applications using Probabilistic Risk Assessment.- Condition monitoring for maintenance support.- Online condition monitoring to enable extended operation of nuclear power plants.- Using condition-based maintenance and reliability-centered maintenance to improve maintenance in nuclear power plants.- Advanced management of pipe wall thinning based on prediction-monitor fusion.- Non-destructive evaluation of material state by acoustic, electromagnetic and thermal techniques.- Non-contact acoustic emission measurement for condition monitoring of bearings in rotating machines using laser interferometry.- Crack growth monitoring by strain measurements.- Acoustic monitoring of rotating machine by advanced signal processing technology.- Acoustic monitoring of rotating machine by advanced signal processing technology.- Virtual and augmented reality in the nuclear plant lifecycle perspective.- A feasibility study on worksite visualization system using augmented reality for Fugen NPP.- Augmented reality for improved communication of construction and maintenance plans in nuclear power plants.- 3D representation of radioisotopic dose rates within nuclear plants for improved radioprotection and plant safety.- Wide area tracking method for augmented reality supporting nuclear power plant maintenance work.- Research on software systems dependability at the OECD Halden Reactor Project.- High level issues in reliability quantification of safety-critical software.- Software reliability analysis in probabilistic risk analysis.