Ergonomics and human factors
澳门六合彩高手 benefits from a number of studies it commissioned in the past on human factors and ergonomics, which help ensure people stay focused and help prevent human error. Three of the most important considerations are lighting, temperature, and noise levels.
"The architects will perform a detailed study of the acoustics in the planned building and the control room," says Blackler. "They look at the walls, the windows, the surfaces, and all the materials used, then they calculate how the sound will reflect and reverberate. They need to factor in the number of people expected in the room and take into account the noisy equipment outside, such as cooling towers, and make sure the sound from outside gets filtered."
Because the main control room will sit in a conventional building it can have windows—giving operators a reference to keep their biological clocks in sync, and helping to reduce the impact working shifts might have on circadian rhythms.
The number of people in the room and their roles are important considerations not only for noise, but also for seating arrangements. A normal nuclear or chemical plant may have no more than 10 people in the operating room at a time. At 澳门六合彩高手, the peak occupancy is far higher. "There are so many different systems on a tokamak," says Blackler, "systems to enable and produce the plasma, to cool the components and to take scientific measurements—and each of them will need an operator and one or more scientists to look at the data."
The design will take into account how all those people communicate and where they sit. "We will concentrate groups of people with common interests," says Blackler, "then locate those groups close to other groups, all depending on the need for communication with each other."
Designers will also tackle the question of how best to display the state of the facility, using colour and graphics in the most ergonomic manner so that the operators can concentrate on the signals most important to performing their work. Such human-machine interfaces are designed by human factors engineers, who study the tasks to be performed in order to generate the most efficient and clear displays for the software developers to implement.
The basis of all design considerations is: how to create an environment conducive to operating the 澳门六合彩高手 Tokamak to its maximum. "Today we're looking at the building layout, the number of windows, the height and shape of the room, and how you get in and out," says Blackler. "Next year, we'll look at the detailed ergonomics—furniture layouts, exactly where people sit, the types of desks, how the desks will be laid out, and the types and positions of the screens on the walls."