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ATHEANA User’s Guide (NUREG-1880) - Final Report

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Manuscript Completed: May 2007
Date Published: June 2007

Prepared by:

J. Forester, Sandia National Laboratories
A. Kolaczkowski, Science Applications International Corp.
S. Cooper, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
D. Bley, Buttonwood Consulting, Inc.
E. Lois, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

E. Lois, NRC Project Manager

Division of Risk Assessment and Special Projects
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001

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This manuscript provides a user’s guide for the human reliability analysis (HRA) method known as “A Technique for Human Event Analysis” (ATHEANA), which the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) documented in NUREG-1624, Rev. 1, dated May 2000. As the first publication of its kind, this user’s guide describes both the quantitative and qualitative ATHEANA analysis approaches, fully describing the revised quantification approach and presenting a simpler description of the other ATHEANA elements needed to perform an HRA as part of a probabilistic risk assessment (PRA). Toward that end, this user’s guide strives to present the steps for applying ATHEANA in a straightforward and succinct manner, so that HRA experts can easily and effectively apply the technique. Consequently, although the authors relied on NUREG-1624 as a primary resource for its development, the NRC is publishing this user’s guide as a standalone document, such that it can be used by analysts to apply the ATHEANA technique without the need to use NUREG-1624.

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