Knowledge preservation

India is in the initial stages of the commercialization of the fast reactors and the efforts on knowledge preservation goes in parallel with the design and operation. Care is taken to ensure that all design and operation data are documented and archived with proper identification. In FBTR all design, drawings and operation related documents are stored separately in an air-conditioned record room for immediate and future reference. However, for PFBR, from 

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The standard requires that any obsolete document retained for legal and/or knowledge preservation purposes are suitably identified. Note that this requirement only applies to documents and not data. 

Obsolete documents have to be removed immediately and all outdated authorized copies must be marked. But they also have to be retained in the archive for knowledge preservation, sometimes also for legal reasons. 

Present the status of the work concerning the knowledge preservation efforts related to the experience accumulated in the various member states from the operation and decommissioning of fast reactors ... 

To its partners in international cooperation — the US/DoE and the organizations of the Euro-Japan collaboration — JNC is proposing a joint approach to knowledge preservation and retrieval. The proposed concept, dubbed the International Super-Archive Network (ISAN), would make use of the standardized software the new technologies of the Internet increase the mutual accessibility of fast reactor information. 

Session 4 Sodium cooled fast reactor knowledge preservation... 

France, Japan and the Russian Federation presented the status on sodium cooled fast reactor experience preservation made in these coimtries. The reports underlined these countries large experience with design, construction and operation of sodium cooled fast reactors. The discussions underlined the importance of the IAEA support for knowledge preservation of fast reactor experience. 

Recognizing the importance of sodium cooled fast reactor knowledge preservation, there is the need to pursue an internationally coordinated activity aiming at the analysis of operational experience with fast reactor equipment and systems, as well as at the generalization of the lessons learned. The objectives of this activity are to ... 

Title R D LMFRs Knowledge Preservation French Project ... 

Key words 2 -Random Liquid metal fast reactor, LMFR, knowledge preservation, CEA, safety, working thermohydraulics, nuclear fuel ... 

To prevent from the loss of knowledge, in parallel development of a knowledge preservation program must be done. This knowledge preservation will cover the following items data... 

BAQUE, F., R D LMFRs knowledge preservation French project, paper presented in the IAEA Technical Meeting on Operational and Decommissioning Experience with Fast Reactors, Cadarache, France, 11-15 March 2002, to be published as lAEA-TECDOC. 

In the frame of Liquid Metal Fast reactors knowledge preservation French project, CEA has separated the field of this subject in several items and has designed several experts to treat specific areas. Thus, this paper presents how this study was made dealing with the following item sodium coolant and cover gas. This paper explains what were the main difficulties by making this study and how they can be solved. 

It can be said as a final conclusion that this selection on sodium coolant is now ready for the future, so the knowledge preservation is on the way. This list of document is also very useful for the present time. 

There are other problems too. Some of the projects closed down quite quickly without much time to consider the problem of knowledge preservation. So the information may exist only as paper documents in the local language. Where knowledge preservation has been undertaken, it has been done so against the background of a project closure, with the belief that this information would not be required for many years to come. So little consideration has been given to accessibility of information to ongoing projects. 

JNC has two fundamental issues to address in the future of our international co-operation knowledge preservation and communication. However, while the fast reactor project has slowed down, progress in computer technology has accelerated. There are opportunities provided by cheap digital storage and by the Internet technology, and it is these that form the basis of JNC s proposals. 

JNC s closest partner in technical matters is CEA. In the first stage of cooperation on knowledge preservation JNC would hope to include EJCC partners and, if possible, the American DOE. 

Any obsolete documents retained for legal and/or knowledge preservation purposes are suitably identified. 

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