Organisational learning practices within six European nuclear reactor sites

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2006, ESREL 2006 - Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 341-346

  Jones, B ^a   Cox, S ^a   Wahlstrom, B ^b   Kettunen, J ^b   Reiman, T ^b   Rollenhagen, C ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c SwedPower AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; POWER PLANTS; RELIABILITY; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EUROPEANS; FINLAND; NUCLEAR POWERS; ORGANISATIONAL LEARNINGS; REACTOR SITES;

NUCLEAR ENERGY; CLIMATE CHANGE;

FINLAND; ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING; REACTOR SITE;

EID: 56249146719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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