Managing Risk Reduction at Sellafield
Managing Risk Reduction at Sellafield

Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2012-11-07

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780102980455

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A report today by the National Audit Office highlights the considerable challenge faced by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in taking forward the clean-up of Sellafield, the UK's largest and most hazardous nuclear site. To date the performance of some of the major projects at Sellafield has been poor. The Authority inherited a legacy of poor planning and neglect over several decades when it took ownership of Sellafield in April 2005. The Authority achieved an important milestone in May 2011 when it approved a more robust lifetime plan for the clean-up of Sellafield site by 2120. The improved lifetime plan contributed to an increase in the Authority's provision for decommissioning the site to £67 billion (undiscounted) as at March 2012, up from £47 billion as at March 2009. Significant uncertainties and scheduling risks remain, which the authority is working to understand and address. For example, there is considerable uncertainty over the time required and cost of completing facilities to treat and store highly radioactive material held in deteriorating legacy ponds and silos. Today's report concluded that it is too early to judge whether the appointment of Nuclear Management Partners Limited as the parent body of Sellafield is delivering value for money.

The Complete Guide to Business Risk Management
The Complete Guide to Business Risk Management

Author: Kit Sadgrove

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780566086618

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In this comprehensive volume Kit Sadgrove shows how you can identify - and control - the relevant threats and ensure that your company will survive. He begins by asking 'What is risk?' 'How do we assess it?' and 'How can it be managed?' He goes on to examine in detail the key danger areas including finance, product quality, health and safety, security and the environment. With case studies, self-assessment exercises and checklists, each chapter looks systematically at what is involved and enables you to draw up action plans that could, for example, provide a defence in law or reduce your insurance premium.

Managing Risk in Projects
Managing Risk in Projects

Author: David Hillson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 1040028128

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Projects are risky undertakings, and risk management is recognised as an integral part of managing the project. Managing Risk in Projects places risk management in its proper context in the world of project management and beyond, emphasising the central concepts essential to understanding why and how risk management matters, and presenting proven practical approaches to addressing risk in any project. The risk management world has changed significantly since the first edition, with advances in risk management practice reflected by changes in international standards and guidelines, as well as significant developments in their implementation. This second edition reflects these changes, and has been completely updated to address progress in the practical application of risk management to projects. Two new chapters have been added, the first discussing how to manage risk in complex projects, and the second considering the role and influence of risk leaders outside the project arena in setting the context and environment for successful risk management. New material also addresses enterprise risk management and risky decision-making. Throughout, the book offers a concise description of current best practice in project risk management whilst introducing the latest developments, to enable project managers, project sponsors and others responsible for managing risk on projects to do just that – effectively.

Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies
Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies

Author: Michele Laraia

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2022-01-28

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0323984649

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Nuclear Decommissioning Case Studies, Volume Three: The People Side presents a selection of global case studies on different aspects of Nuclear Decommissioning. This volume focuses on the people side of nuclear decommissioning, including stakeholder impacts, public relations and workforce factors. It presents a selection of case studies on stakeholders, socioeconomics and human factors, providing readers with a guide and information to deal with common, often contentious challenges. The events covered in this publication range from change management, stakeholder motivation, involvement and leadership adequacies. Decommissioning experts, including regulators, operators, waste managers, researchers and academics will find this book to be suitable supplementary material to Michele Laraia's reference works on the theory and applications of nuclear decommissioning. Alongside the case studies books in this series, readers will obtain an understanding of stakeholder, socioeconomic and people-related case studies, what happened, and what we can learn from them. - Presents a selection of global case studies that focus on the people side of nuclear decommissioning, specifically workforce and public impacts, stakeholder management and human factors - Highlights important sustainability and socioeconomic factors - Assists the reader in developing robust people-related plans and strategies based on experience and lessons learned

Radioactive Waste Management 2000
Radioactive Waste Management 2000

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2001-03-30

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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The media interest in the radioactive waste management industry has raised the role of surrounding issues. The papers in this volume have been written and brought together by a group of experts, each of whom deals with radioactive waste management on a daily basis.

Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry
Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry

Author: Barry Pemberton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-09-16

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1317398076

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Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry explores the UK nuclear Legacy - governance issues associated with the decommissioning of a range of early-generation civil nuclear facilities. This book traces how we got here and the risks that have been taken, whilst presenting new research and thinking that is required to manage our nuclear Legacy. The book addresses a new analytical approach using notions of governance to review key historic events. This approach analyses these events using concepts of stakeholder control, accountability and regulation. Using these concepts and undertaking a more detailed analysis of the Legacy’s current governance arrangements; the conventional public sector-based solutions that attempt to harness private sector expertise, this book will contrast these with government responses to determine the degree of control over the Legacy and any possible control issues. Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry concludes that we need to recognise the legacy’s problems as exceptional rather than prosaic, and suggests that this requires exceptional governance solutions rather than the current form that is clearly failing.

Managing Risk in Extreme Environments
Managing Risk in Extreme Environments

Author: Duncan Martin

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0749449454

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Taking readers through sophisticated risk management concepts by way of insightful anecdotes and authoritative case studies, this text offers an informative discourse on how risk management works in extreme situations.

Management of Radioactive Wastes
Management of Radioactive Wastes

Author: F. Barker

Publisher: Thomas Telford

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780727726674

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The catalyst for the conference which gave rise to these proceedings was the decision of the former UK Government to block further investigation by the nuclear waste agency, UK Nirex Ltd, for a national radioactive waste repository near the Sellafield site. This decision made it essential to reconsider the question: 'Where next for radioactive waste management?' The papers in this volume pinpoint the key issues that need to be addressed.