Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil
In the second half of the twentieth century in Brazil, several nuclear facilities were built for the most varied objectives. The largest number of such facilities is at the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute in São Paulo (IPEN-CNEN/SP). For different reasons, some of these facilities had their pr...
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| author | Ricardo Bastos Smith Tereza Cristina Salvetti Ana Paula Gimenes Tessaro Júlio Takehiro Marumo Roberto Vicente |
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| description | In the second half of the twentieth century in Brazil, several nuclear facilities were built for the most varied objectives. The largest number of such facilities is at the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute in São Paulo (IPEN-CNEN/SP). For different reasons, some of these facilities had their projects finalized and were deactivated. Some of the equipment was then dismantled, but the respective nuclear and radioactive material remained isolated in the original sites awaiting the proper decommissioning procedures. The Celeste Project is an example of a facility where the nuclear material has been kept, and is subject to Argentine-Brazilian Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) periodic inspections. Because of a number of interests, including financial and/or budgeting situations at the institutions, decades have passed without any further action, and the people who withold information and knowledge about these facilities have already moved away from the area or are in the process of. Therefore, because of the absence of knowledge management techniques in force at the time of establishing and operating these installations, this work proposes an analysis about the possible consequences in case of loss of perhaps the only one remaining knowledge, the one from the people who designed those departments and worked there. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-40bef44fbfb94385b7a3f071e4062e542022-12-22T04:37:05ZengBrazilian Radiation Protection Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Proteção Radiológica, SBPR)Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences2319-06122021-02-0183A10.15392/bjrs.v8i3A.1315Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in BrazilRicardo Bastos Smith0Tereza Cristina Salvetti1Ana Paula Gimenes Tessaro2Júlio Takehiro Marumo3Roberto Vicente4Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN/CNEN-SP)Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN/CNEN-SP)Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN/CNEN-SP)Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN/CNEN-SP)Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN/CNEN-SP)In the second half of the twentieth century in Brazil, several nuclear facilities were built for the most varied objectives. The largest number of such facilities is at the Nuclear and Energy Research Institute in São Paulo (IPEN-CNEN/SP). For different reasons, some of these facilities had their projects finalized and were deactivated. Some of the equipment was then dismantled, but the respective nuclear and radioactive material remained isolated in the original sites awaiting the proper decommissioning procedures. The Celeste Project is an example of a facility where the nuclear material has been kept, and is subject to Argentine-Brazilian Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) periodic inspections. Because of a number of interests, including financial and/or budgeting situations at the institutions, decades have passed without any further action, and the people who withold information and knowledge about these facilities have already moved away from the area or are in the process of. Therefore, because of the absence of knowledge management techniques in force at the time of establishing and operating these installations, this work proposes an analysis about the possible consequences in case of loss of perhaps the only one remaining knowledge, the one from the people who designed those departments and worked there.https://bjrs.org.br/revista/index.php/REVISTA/article/view/1315knowledge managementdecommissioningnuclear legacyCeleste projectIPEN facilities. |
| spellingShingle | Ricardo Bastos Smith Tereza Cristina Salvetti Ana Paula Gimenes Tessaro Júlio Takehiro Marumo Roberto Vicente Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences knowledge management decommissioning nuclear legacy Celeste project IPEN facilities. |
| title | Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil |
| title_full | Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil |
| title_short | Knowledge Management in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities in Brazil |
| title_sort | knowledge management in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities in brazil |
| topic | knowledge management decommissioning nuclear legacy Celeste project IPEN facilities. |
| url | https://bjrs.org.br/revista/index.php/REVISTA/article/view/1315 |
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