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Safety Culture in Nuclear Installations

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Physics General".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 August 2021) | Viewed by 15574

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Susana García-Herrero

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Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Burgos, 709-0525 Burgos, Spain
Interests: nuclear safety culture; industry 4.0; collaborative robots
Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Mariscal

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Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad de Burgos, 709-0525 Burgos, Spain
Interests: nuclear safety culture; industry 4.0; collaborative robots
Eng. Antonio Toca Otero

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Santa María de Garoña Nuclear Power Plant, 09212 Santa María de Garoña, Burgos, Spain
Interests: nuclear power plants; safety culture; management systems; quality; human factors

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

For the nuclear power industry, nuclear safety remains the overriding priority. Although the same traits apply to reactor safety, radiological safety, industrial safety, and environmental safety and security, nuclear safety must be the first value adopted in all companies. Nuclear safety is the employees’ collective responsibility.
Nuclear safety is the collective responsibility of each team member and applies to all employees, from the board of directors to the individual contributors. No one in the organization is exempt from the obligation to ensure safety first.
With the goal improve nuclear safety culture, this Special Issue will bring together the technical study of experiences for improving nuclear safety culture, and especially with the implementation of new technologies and tools such as big data.
This Special Issue welcomes high-quality original research and review articles on the impact of nuclear safety culture.

Potential topics for submissions include but are not limited to the following:

  • Integration of Industry 4.0 into nuclear facilities
  • Application of big data in nuclear facilities
  • Training in safety culture
  • Measuring safety culture in nuclear facilities
  • Cases of nuclear safety deployment and improvement
  • New methodologies for improving safety culture in nuclear installations

Prof. Dr. Miguel Angel Mariscal
Prof. Dr. Susana García-Herrero
Eng. Antonio Toca Otero
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • nuclear safety culture
  • big data
  • industry 4.0

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Approaching Nuclear Safety Culture in Fission and Fusion Technology
by Guglielmo Lomonaco, Enrico Mainardi, Tereza Marková and Guido Mazzini
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(10), 4511; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11104511 - 15 May 2021
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The topic of Nuclear Safety Culture touches several different aspects with contributions from the main organizations involved in nuclear projects and belonging to vendors, utility and regulators. Two nuclear safety directives issued by the European Commission emphasize the fundamental principle of national responsibility [...] Read more.
The topic of Nuclear Safety Culture touches several different aspects with contributions from the main organizations involved in nuclear projects and belonging to vendors, utility and regulators. Two nuclear safety directives issued by the European Commission emphasize the fundamental principle of national responsibility for nuclear safety and are implemented in each member country’s legislation. An example of fission implementation is highlighted, referring to the Czech Republic legislation; an example of application in fusion technology is the implementation of the Nuclear Safety Culture in the ITER project, located in Cadarache, in the south of France. The aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of this field, pointing out the cross reference between fission and fusion technology as applied in two countries, with concrete experiences and future prospects for nuclear technologies. Full article
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Safety Culture in the Spanish Nuclear Power Plants through the Prism of High Reliability Organization, Resilience and Conflicting Objectives Theories
by Eulàlia Badia, Joaquín Navajas and Josep-Maria Losilla
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(1), 345; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11010345 - 31 Dec 2020
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Safety culture is the result of values, attitudes, and perceptions of the members of an organization that prioritize safety over competing goals. Previous research has shown the impact that organizational aspects can have in safety performance. Under the prism of the theoretical approaches [...] Read more.
Safety culture is the result of values, attitudes, and perceptions of the members of an organization that prioritize safety over competing goals. Previous research has shown the impact that organizational aspects can have in safety performance. Under the prism of the theoretical approaches from the high reliability organizations theory (HROT), resilience engineering (RE), and conflicting objectives perspective, this study was aimed at describing the overall main safety culture traits of the Spanish nuclear power plants, as well as identifying particularities associated with subcultures. For this purpose, a statistical analysis of safety culture surveys and behavioral anchored rating scales (BARS), handed over to all the operating Spanish nuclear power plants, was carried out. Results reveal that safety is a recognized value that prevails over production, there is a high degree of standardization, power plants are better prepared to organize plans and strategies than to adapt and cope with the needs of a crisis, and there is a critical and fragmented perception about the processes of resources allocation. Findings also identify that sociodemographic aspects, such as work location and contractual relationship, seem to be shaping differentiated visions. Several safety implications linked to the results are discussed. Full article
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A Vision-Based Approach for Ensuring Proper Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
by Shi Chen and Kazuyuki Demachi
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(15), 5129; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10155129 - 26 Jul 2020
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Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (NPS) is challenging due to industrial and chemical hazards as well as radiological ones. The decommissioning workers in these sites are instructed to wear proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for radiation protection. However, workers may [...] Read more.
Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (NPS) is challenging due to industrial and chemical hazards as well as radiological ones. The decommissioning workers in these sites are instructed to wear proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for radiation protection. However, workers may not be able to accurately comply with safety regulations at decommissioning sites, even with prior education and training. In response to the difficulties of on-site PPE management, this paper presents a vision-based automated monitoring approach to help to facilitate the occupational safety monitoring task of decommissioning workers to ensure proper use of PPE by the combination of deep learning-based individual detection and object detection using geometric relationships analysis. The performance of the proposed approach was experimentally evaluated, and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is capable of identifying decommissioning workers’ improper use of PPE with high precision and recall rate while ensuring real-time performance to meet the industrial requirements. Full article
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Organizational Culture and Subcultures in the Spanish Nuclear Industry
by Eulàlia Badia, Joaquín Navajas and Josep-Maria Losilla
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(10), 3454; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10103454 - 17 May 2020
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Organizational culture determines the norms, values and behaviors of an organization, playing a key role in the safety of high-reliability organizations (HRO). Previous research has shown that differentiated subcultures can coexist within organizations, sharing some norms and values but not necessary everything From [...] Read more.
Organizational culture determines the norms, values and behaviors of an organization, playing a key role in the safety of high-reliability organizations (HRO). Previous research has shown that differentiated subcultures can coexist within organizations, sharing some norms and values but not necessary everything From this perspective, this study was aimed at (1) describing the organizational culture of the Spanish nuclear industry and (2) determining the potential presence of organizational subcultures. To do that, a statistical analysis of organizational culture surveys (Organizational Culture Inventory®, N = 5825) handed over to all organizations within the Spanish nuclear industry, was carried out. Results allow us to accurately characterize the industry’s organizational culture, which is made up of predominant “Constructive”-style behaviors together with “Defensive” normative patterns of the “Conventional”, “Dependent” and “Perfectionistic” styles. Indications about the existence of various subcultures associated to the nuclear organization type, the sociodemographic aspect and the organizational structure component were also found. Certain safety implications potentially linked to the existence of subcultures and to the industry’s organizational culture are discussed. Full article
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