READIT-2007 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

We are striving to take the fast reactor knowledge to future generation for the
following two emphasized resolutions:
i) IAEA Convention on Nuclear Safety insists all the member states to “take the
appropriate steps to ensure that sufficient numbers of qualified staff with
appropriate education, training and retraining are available for all safety-related
activities in or for each nuclear installation, throughout its life”.
ii) General Conference Resolution (44)/RES/21 states: “the development and
management of safe nuclear power, science and applications in those Member
States which have chosen or will choose the nuclear option require the
preservation of knowledge and experience and the maintenance of an adequate
technologically and scientifically competent human resource potential in the
nuclear sphere”,
2. ASPECTS OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Knowledge Management defines as an “integrated, systematic approach to identifying,
acquiring, transforming, developing, disseminating, using, sharing and preserving
knowledge, relevant to achieving specified objectives” [2]. Knowledge Management
consists of three fundamental components: people, process and technology. Knowledge
management focuses on :
- people and organizational culture to stimulate and nurture the sharing and use
of knowledge;
- processes or methods to find, create, capture and share knowledge;
- technology to store and make knowledge accessible and to allow people to
work together without being together without any duplicity and repetition of
work flow.
Knowledge can broadly be categorized as explicit and tacit. Explicit knowledge
includes technical information gathered while carrying out R&D activities and further in
the fields of ‘Applied Sciences’ and data that can be transferred easily to interested
parties. However, documents never comprise experts’ knowledge fully, and a novice
reading those instructions or information might not end up with the same results as the
expert. The tacit knowledge of the experts including scientists, engineers and
technicians, is required over a long period and may never be fully articulated.
Processes
Technology
People
Fig.1
Fundamental components of
knowledge management
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