nuclear industry Articles
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Knowledge management for nuclear industry operating organisations
Maintaining nuclear competencies in the nuclear industry and nuclear regulatory authorities will be one of the most critical challenges in the near future. The purposes of this paper are to identify the fundamental elements needed for an effective Knowledge Management (KM) system, share with nuclear industry operating organisation managers the lessons learned in the industry regarding KM and, ...
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Applying systems cybernetics in the nuclear industry: programmes for optimising human performance
This paper describes the author’s experiences in applying some key systems cybernetics ideas and methodologies to resolve difficult and complex issues in a typical technically based organisational context, which in these cases were in the nuclear industry. As such, they could be considered to be relevant examples for moving from well-established theoretical and academic developments to practical ...
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Civil liability for nuclear damage and corporate system of complex insurance coverage for companies and organisations of nuclear industry
Building up a unified insurance coverage system for nuclear industry companies requires the industry and enterprises to perform a number of extrinsic functions (insurance expertise, development of insurance programme of the company, drafting of insurance contracts, etc.). The functions of the organisation of insurance coverage are offered to be deputed to a specialised organisation (insurance ...
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Utilisation of research and training reactors in the study programme of students at the Slovak University of Technology
Preparing operating staff for the nuclear industry is and also will be one of the most serious education processes, mainly in the Central-European countries where about 40–50% of the electricity is produced in nuclear power plants. In the Central-European region there exists a very extensive and also effective international collaboration in nuclear industry and education. Similarly, the level of ...
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HRM in a highly uncertain strategic situation: the case of the electronuclear industry
The nuclear industry has some specific strategic features that result in a very high level of uncertainty. The demand for new reactors has been declining for more than twenty years, and gains in performance have slowed down during the same period. As a result, at first sight, this technology should be classified as declining in terms of demand and maturing in terms of technological life cycle. ...
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Nuclear knowledge management: the Brazilian model
The nuclear industry, owing to the security and quality restrictions, needs a team of professionals with a high degree of technical specialisation. Managing and keeping this team up to date with technology improvements, demands from Eletronuclear a constant concern with its qualification.Keywords: knowledge management, Eletronuclear, competence tree, intellectual capital mapping, Brazil, nuclear ...
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Building and maintaining a knowledge-sharing culture for nuclear knowledge transfer
This article highlights the problem of lack of willingness to share knowledge in nuclear organisations. This occurrence is widely common for different entities and business fields. The nuclear industry and nuclear power plant operating companies are not an exception. Knowledge may be considered as power, but in the context of an ageing workforce and the human resource shortage in the nuclear ...
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Knowledge management initiatives in the Canadian nuclear industry
The Canadian nuclear industry has been faced with many challenges in the area of Knowledge Management (KM) over the past decade. Increasing levels of retirement have come at a time when the industry is facing increased demand for experienced nuclear scientists and engineers for refurbishment, decommissioning and new builds. In the mid-1990s, the industry was faced with the prospect of a growing ...
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Nuclear code of ethics
The nuclear industry is inseparable from the other techniques making up our industrial society. It is not an excrescence that can be lanced without impinging upon the other sectors of this society, one of whose aspects is its interrelativity. The ethical question concerning nuclear energy in its application, its operation, its use, is part of a wider question from which it cannot be separated: ...
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Managing nuclear knowledge: a governmental perspective
Governments and industries have different perceptions about knowledge management. Coporate houses limit their vision to 3–5 years, while governments have to plan for decades. The industry works in a competitive environment and has to direct R&D towards customising the existing knowledge base, while governments have to direct R&D towards search for further knowledge. For a higher education ...
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Nuclear education in Russia: status, peculiarities, problems and perspectives
The paper is devoted to analysis of Russian nuclear education system: its current status, specific features, difficulties and prospects. Russian higher education system in nuclear engineering has been created simultaneously with the development of nuclear industry, and the system completely satisfied all industrial demands for the specialists of different qualification levels. For the past ...
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Analysis study for nanotechnology promotions in the nuclear industry using system dynamics
The investment in the nuclear industry by nanoscale technology is investigated. For marketing innovations, the consideration of the risks and benefits in the industry is important. For the promotion of a new technology, it is necessary to improve the safety standard of this technology, and the Risk Assessment (RA) of nanotechnology (NT) is an important step in the application of nanoscale ...
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Replacing nuclear staff: the proactive work at IPEN/CNEN-SP-Brazil
The purpose of this paper was to bring out the actual situation of Nuclear Education and Training in Brazil. Accordingly, this paper overviews the situation of educational matters in Latin America, especially in Brazil, in terms of efficiency and effectiveness of its superior education system. Mainly, this paper points out the replacing of nuclear staff and the proactive work of the Energy and ...
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Education for the nuclear power industry: Swedish perspective
In the Swedish nuclear power industry staff, very few newly employed have a deep education in reactor technology. To remedy this, a joint education company, Nuclear Training and Safety Center (KSU), has been formed. To ensure that nuclear competence will be available also in a long-term perspective, the Swedish nuclear power industry and the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI) have formed a ...
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The development of International Atomic Energy Agency guidance on knowledge management in nuclear R&D organisations
It is now generally recognised that the application of nuclear technologies can be enhanced through the effective creation, sharing and transfer of knowledge. Indeed, the management of knowledge is a major factor in nurturing a culture of innovation. In 2002, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference discussed the growing importance of Nuclear Knowledge Management (NKM) and ...
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Applying fuzzy negentropy to public involvement valuation in nuclear risks: application to Areva's communication policy
In contrast to the usual thermodynamic dogma, a continuous variation between two extreme distributions, one described by a Fermi-Dirac statistic and the second by a Bose-Einstein statistic, could be measured by a fuzzy parameter. The result is applied to the conformation of public opinion, initially structured according to implicit modes composed of the beliefs, fears, allegories and myths of the ...
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Nuclear industry: the need for outreaching. The point of view of the stakeholders: the workers
Starting from a description of the current situation, which sees Italy outside the nuclear producers, the paper describes the different realities that are still working on nuclear energy and its different facets, illustrating Italian enterprises’ and trade unions’ role in a future perspective.Keywords: nuclear energy, nuclear disarmament, ethical energy, reconversion, Italy, Sogin, Italian ...
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Risk management of knowledge loss in nuclear industry organisations
Maintaining nuclear competencies in the nuclear industry and nuclear regulatory authorities will be one of the most critical challenges in the near future. As many nuclear experts around the world are approaching retirement, the potential exists for the loss of a substantial amount of critical nuclear knowledge and corporate memory. The loss of such employees, many of whom literally designed, ...
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Regulatory independence and accountability: a survey of international nuclear regulatory regimes
As the government of India considers development of an independent regulator for civil nuclear power, examples from other nations around the world, including those with established civil nuclear programmes and those now developing new nuclear, provide interesting insights and lessons to be learned. This paper compares the organisational structure of the Indian governmental agency, the Nuclear ...
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Feeding the nuclear pipeline: enabling a global nuclear future
Nuclear energy, which exhibits a unique combination of environmental and sustainable attributes, appears strongly positioned to play a much larger and more pivotal role in the mix of future global energy supplies than it has played in the past. Unfortunately, enrolment patterns in nuclear engineering programmes have seriously eroded over the past decade – causing alarmingly low enrolment levels ...
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