TAG 1.2 Human organisation and society
RESPECT – Residents’ Gendered Safety and Risk Expectations – The Case of SMRs in the urban area, LUT
Conference papers and journal articles:
Kiviluoma, N., Savela, N., Kojo, M. 2025. Exploring gender insights on the perceived safety and acceptance of Small Modular Reactors. Energy Strategy Reviews, Volume 62, November 2025, 101882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2025.101882
SCALA – Safety Culture and Leadership in Sociotechnical Changes and Transitions, VTT, Lilikoi
Research reports:
Viitanen, K., Reiman, T., Jakobsson, F., Sylvander, C., Karadeniz, S. 2025. Internal nuclear safety oversight as part of organizational defence-in-depth – Lessons learned for the Nordic nuclear industry. Final report from the NKS-R INSOLE activity. NKS-494, ISBN 978-87-7893-591-1, 49 p.
Viitanen, K., Reiman, T., Karadeniz, S., Airola, M., Jakobsson, F., Sylvander, C., Lind, S. 2024. Internal nuclear safety oversight as part of organizational defence-in-depth – Lessons learned for the Nordic nuclear industry. Intermediate report from the NKS-R Insole activity. NKS-482, ISBN 978-87-7893-578-6, 75 p.
Conference papers and journal articles:
Viitanen, K., Reiman, T., Jakobsson, F., Sylvander, C., Karadeniz, S. 2026. Implementing internal independent nuclear safety oversight – Insights from a Nordic empirical case study. Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 446, January 2026, 114534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nucengdes.2025.114534
Reiman, T., Viitanen, K., Hakala, J., & Wrona, K., 2023. Safety culture specialists as resilience professionals – insights from NPP construction. Resilience Engineering Symposium. https://www.resilience-engineering-association.org/blog/2023/12/15/10th-symposium-proceedings-preliminary-version/
Viitanen, K., Airola, M., & Gotcheva, N., 2023. Exploring the links between leadership and resilience – a middle managers’ perspective. Resilience Engineering Symposium. https://www.resilience-engineering-association.org/blog/2023/12/15/10th-symposium-proceedings-preliminary-version/
TONUS – Towards Nuclear Human Systems Integration, VTT, FIOH
Research reports:
Harviainen, T., Yuan, P.C. 2024. Digital Twins – Safer-TONUS task report. VTT Research report, 10 p.
Laarni, J. 2024. Measuring HFE program impact. VTT Research report, VTT-R-00057-24, 31 p. (Appendix 1, Cost Benefit Excel)
Conference papers and journal articles:
Passi, T., Pakarinen, S., Liinasuo, M. 2025. Recommendations for Developing Nuclear Power Plant Field Operators’ Visual Inspection Rounds. Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting. October 13-17, 2025, Chicago, IL, USA. https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251358243
Koskinen, H., Laarni, J., Pakarinen, S., Passi, T., Lukander, K., Salonen, T., Liinasuo, M. 2024. Initial Operating Experiences in a Digital Control Room. In: Tareq Ahram (eds) Human Factors in Software and Systems Engineering. AHFE (2024) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 140. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005047
Koskinen, H., Pakarinen, S., Passi, T., Lukander, K., Laarni, J., Salonen, T.T. 2024. Participatory development of Virtual Reality training for nuclear power plant field operators. Nuclear Technology 210, pp. 2245-2256. https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2377008
Liinasuo, M., Passi, T., & Pakarinen, S. 2024. Working with Senses – Visual Inspection in a Nuclear Power. ECCE ’24: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2024, 22, pp. 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3673805.3673813
Pakarinen, S., Laarni, J., Koskinen, H., Passi, T., Liinasuo, M., Salonen, T.T. 2024. Virtual-reality training solutions for nuclear power plant field operators: A scoping review. Progress in Nuclear Energy, 169, April 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnucene.2024.105104
Passi, T., Pakarinen, S., Liinasuo, M. 2024. Field operators’ visual inspection practices in the operating Finnish nuclear power plants. In: Ronald Boring (eds) Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance. AHFE (2024) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 132. AHFE International, USA. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004883