nuclear power industry Articles
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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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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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Comparing boiling and pressurised water reactors versus novel variants for deployment in GCC countries
A broad comparison between the two main light water reactor types, boiling and pressurised water reactors, is made in order to provide a background for the decision making on the nascent nuclear power industry in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. The comparison leads to the natural choice of a novel reactor concept based on proven light water reactor technology and experience that is ...
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Assuring nuclear safety education in the twenty-first century in Sweden
One of the most critical challenges in the future for nuclear technology is to maintain nuclear competence. In this paper, the work to cope with this challenge in Sweden is described. The main measure has been the cooperation between the authorities and the nuclear power industry in the Swedish Centre for Nuclear Technology. In the year 2002, its activity only to support PhD students was expanded ...
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South-East Asian prospects for nuclear power
South-East Asia's strong economic growth of recent decades is expected to endure the requirement of increasing amounts of energy as well as the corresponding capital investments. The development of a nuclear power industry has been considered for some time in several states, but concrete government action is yet to follow. Decisions to launch nuclear power programmes would be facilitated if and ...
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The classification of knowledge and expertise in Finnish nuclear power plants
The difficulties in sharing tacit knowledge may compromise the safe performance of high-reliability organisations. This threat has been recognised in nuclear power plants worldwide, owing to the risk of simultaneous retirements. In this study, the nature of tacit knowledge in Finnish nuclear power plants was examined and the expertise of nuclear workers modelled. The results of this interview ...
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Perspective of international activities on nuclear knowledge management and proposals for further refinements
Concerns are raised world-wide on the ageing of nuclear manpower, widespread retirements of senior workers within the past several years, the decline of nuclear education and training and the resulting shortage of nuclear manpower supply. The OECD/NEA and the IAEA started formulating activities regarding these concerns, which elaborate on the ways of expanding these activities. At this moment, it ...
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'Total environ-mentality' culture: re-engineering the American nuclear power industry through learning from multi-national, multi-level experience
Applying lessons learned at the national, the utility, and the plant level, from selected segments of the world-wide nuclear power industry, might facilitate an environmentally acceptable renaissance in the US. It can be deduced that the core of all the continuous quality improvement and re-engineering programmes, championed by the top management of nuclear power utilities around the world, ...
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An applied research study on information technology talent management and knowledge management innovations for Generation Y information technology professionals in the nuclear power industry
Nuclear power plants rely on computerised Instrumentation and Control (I&C) systems in monitoring, control and protection at nuclear facilities. I&C systems serve a critical role in monitoring and control functions in nuclear power plants (National Research Council, 1997). To support the use of I&C systems, nuclear power organisations have expanded the intellectual capital of their workforces ...
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Developing knowledge transfer-oriented ethical cultures in US government agencies regulating the commercial use of nuclear power
Knowledge management is the practice of capturing critical information and making the right information available to the right people at the right time. Such practices are critical for US government agencies that must make ethical and safety-oriented decisions in regulating commercial operations and waste disposal in the nuclear power industry. The development of knowledge management and ...
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The 21st century nuclear park: a source of energy, water, food, and jobs
The concept of a nuclear-powered agro-industrial complex, or "nuplex", first advanced 40 years ago, provides an increasingly attractive means of addressing critical challenges in developing nations. The nuplex concept, updated for the 21st century, can serve as the basis for a nuclear park that provides a safe, environmentally friendly, and reliable source of energy at a cost comparable to other ...
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Methods for sharing tacit nuclear knowledge and expertise
The ageing of workforce, the lack of training programmes and recruitments, and the decline in R&D activities have prompted discussions about the need to preserve nuclear knowledge by transferring it from retiring experts to new recruits. Studies conducted in the nuclear and power industries have found that challenges lie especially in transferring tacit knowledge, which the experts have ...
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The role of knowledge management in NPP organisational performance
Various Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) around the globe have begun to recognise the strategic importance of Knowledge Management (KM) initiatives in achieving sustained high levels of operational performance. Although these organisations have been involved in KM-related activities for some time, they typically have not viewed and managed these activities from a KM perspective. Several NPPs have been ...
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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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TB 48: Wolsung nuclear power plant uses liqui-cel membrane contactors for dissolved oxygen removal to prevent corrosion
Dissolved oxygen is a leading source of corrosion in water systems. The Korean Electric Power Institute (KEPRI) has installed Liqui-Cel Membrane Contactors in the Wolsung nuclear power plant in South Korea. The membranes have been in operation since 2000 and have successfully met the rigorous demands of the nuclear power industry. The Wolsung unit 1 plant is a pressurized heavy water type ...
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Nuclear desalination in the Arab world – Part II: advanced inherent and passive safe nuclear reactors
Rapid increases in population levels have led to greater demands for fresh water and electricity in the Arab World. Different types of energies are needed to contribute to bridging the gap between increased demand and production. Increased levels of safeguards in nuclear power plants have became reliable due to their large operational experience, which now exceeds 11,000 years of operation. Thus, ...
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Korean initiatives on nuclear knowledge management
Korean atomic energy activities have been the vigorous and ever expanding in the peaceful use of atomic energy. However for the last ten-year period, the new recruitments have been drastically reduced. The paper presents the nuclear manpower status in each nuclear related institute, which was surveyed in 2002. The ageing problem appears but is not very serious as a whole. The research institutes ...
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Numerical and experimental simulation of accident processes using KMS large-scale test facility under the program of training university students for nuclear power industry
The KMS large-scale test facility is being constructed at NITI site and designed to model accident processes in VVER reactor plants and provide experimental data for safety analysis of both existing and future NPPs. The KMS phase I is at the completion stage. This is a containment model of 2000 m3 volume intended for experimentally simulating heat and mass transfers of steam-gas mixtures and ...
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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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The future of nuclear power worldwide
Energy production from fossil fuels, mainly natural gas and coal, contributes significantly to global warming through large-scale greenhouse gas emissions, mainly of hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide. At least for the next few decades, one of the realistic options for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from energy production could be the increasing use of ...
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