MAPI's knowledge-based system will help to deal with abnormal conditions (in nuclear plants)

Mitsubishi Atomic Power Industries (MAPI) in Japan is incorporating artificial intelligence characteristics into a system for guiding nuclear power plant operators during fault conditions. The central feature of the system is the incorporation of the operator's cognitive processes as the framework for its display of information and its mode of reasoning. A small scale prototype system has been developed and work is underway to produce and test a full-scale prototype system by 1991. (UK)