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Managing Nuclear Projects
Author(s): Jas Devgun
- Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
- Publication Date: September 14, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 0857095919
- ISBN-13: 9780857095916
Book Description
Part one provides a general overview of the nuclear industry including basic principles for managing nuclear projects, nuclear safety culture, management of worker risk, training, and management of complex projects. Part two focuses on managing reactor projects with discussion on a variety of topics including management of research reactor projects, medical radioisotope production, power reactor modifications, power uprates, outage management, and management of nuclear-related R&D. Chapters in part three highlight the areas of radioactive waste and spent fuel management, reactor decommissioning, and remediation of radioactively contaminated sites. Finally, part four explores regulation, guidance and emergency management in the nuclear industry. Chapters discuss quality assurance and auditing programs, licensing procedures for nuclear installations, emergency preparedness, management of nuclear crises, and international nuclear cooperation.
With its distinguished editor and contributors, Managing Nuclear Projects is a valuable resource for project managers, plant managers, engineers, regulators, training professionals, consultants, and academics.
- Examines the basic principles of managing nuclear projects focussing on processes and requirements
- Discusses the management of reactor projects
- Explores regulation, guidance and emergency management in the nuclear industry
Editorial Reviews
Review
"…a well-organized volume that has brought together the varied types of nuclear facilities, activities, and regulatory systems…it has incorporated the many discussions from its assorted contributors into a fluid work providing an array of inside knowledge on the activities, systems, and regulatory models of the modern nuclear industry for the nuclear novice." --NEIMagazine.com, March 12, 2014
"If you are a manager in any area of the nuclear field, this book is a resource that you want close to you on your bookshelf." --Dr. Tero Varjoranta, Director General of STUK, and former Director of the IAEA Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle & Waste Technology
About the Author
In addition, Dr. Devgun has served as consultant to IAEA in Vienna and is a member of an OECD/NEA committee and various working groups. He has chaired numerous national and international sessions at technical conferences and taught numerous technical workshops and lectures at various organizations/sites including at WMS, Oxford, Glasgow, Bruges, Saclay, and Manchester University. He is on the International Advisory Board of Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology (official journal of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan) and has served the American Nuclear Society for three decades, holding various leadership roles. Dr. Devgun is the editor of Managing Nuclear Projects
Individual chapters are authored by technical experts in their fields with substantial experience and recognition.
