Fundamental Issues Critical to the Success of Nuclear Projects
- 1st Edition - October 28, 2021
- Latest edition
- Editor: Joseph Boucau
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 4 7 2 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 4 7 3 - 7
Fundamental Issues Critical to the Success of Nuclear Projects presents a complete analysis of the core considerations for those deploying nuclear power plants, managing existing… Read more
Fundamental Issues Critical to the Success of Nuclear Projects presents a complete analysis of the core considerations for those deploying nuclear power plants, managing existing plants, and also for those developing and building new plants. It includes critical considerations, such as cost-estimation, safety procedures, and regulatory compliance, manpower optimization and development, and the application of innovative technologies, such as the use of robotics. Those important issues have been addressed in a systematic way, and explanations have been provided on how the nuclear industry has continuously found solutions to mitigate and eventually solve them properly.
- Discusses innovative technologies being implemented in international nuclear plants to improve efficiency, safety, and cost-effectiveness in new, existing, and decommissioned nuclear power plants
- Provides guidance on difficult cost estimation for nuclear projects, as well as safety procedures, legislation, and regulatory compliance both inside and outside of the United States
- Considers the future of nuclear energy and analyses the challenges ahead for a sustainable nuclear energy future
Nuclear project managers, nuclear engineers, executives and researchers; engineering students in nuclear energy issues and project management; federal and state regulators; R&D managers; Quality Assurance inspectors; decommissioning and site clean-up managers
Part I Future of nuclear energy and challenges ahead
1. Role of nuclear fission energy from past to future: Critical issues: Energy policy and market design, cost control, innovation and flexibility
2. Overview of current status and future trends of nuclear power industry of the world
Part II Cost estimating for nuclear projects
3. International guidance on decommissioning cost structure and its practical implementation
Part III Safety, procedures and regulatory compliance
4. Procedures at nuclear sites
5. Severe accidents and lessons learned: design and organizational factors perspective after Fukushima
Part IV Technology applications in support of nuclear projects
6. New build deployment challenges and resolution
7. Technologies in support of reactor dismantling
8. Advanced methodologies in support of the development of innovative technologies in nuclear projects
Part V Nuclear manpower deployment, optimization and development
9. Managing uncertainty in civil nuclear projects
10. Nuclear manpower issues for new and existing projects
11. Transition to decommissioning
Part VI Stakeholder role in nuclear projects
12. Challenges to probabilistic risk assessment of nuclear power plants
13. Developing and maintaining organizational culture for nuclear sites
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 28, 2021
- Language: English
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Joseph Boucau
Joseph Boucau received an engineering master’s degree from the University of Mons (Belgium). He joined Westinghouse in 1981 in the nuclear safety engineering department with increased responsibilities. He then moved to marketing and customer project management with some large assignments and a wide spectrum of activities. He led a growth initiative for decommissioning and dismantling, which received some significant awards, and was recently appointed Vice President of Decommissioning and Dismantling Business Development with global oversight on decommissioning, decontamination, remediation, and waste management services.
Affiliations and expertise
Vice President of Decommissioning and Dismantling Business Development at Westinghouse Electric CompanyRead Fundamental Issues Critical to the Success of Nuclear Projects on ScienceDirect