Cap??tulo de livro
Knowledge management in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities in Brazil
Essays on nuclear energy and radioactive waste management
Registro en:
1 ed.
6
0000-0003-3010-9691
Autor
SMITH, RICARDO B.
SALVETTI, TEREZA C.
TESSARO, ANA P.G.
MARUMO, JULIO T.
VICENTE, ROBERTO
Resumen
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 S??o 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 withhold information
and knowledge about these facilities have already moved away from
the area or are in the process of. Therefore, this work proposes an
analysis about the knowledge management reflecting on the possible
consequences for the decommissioning processes, in case of loss of
the knowledge acquired.