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EDF Energy Nuclear New Build: Lessons

Learned in Knowledge Management

Melanie Sachar, Knowledge Management Lead, EDF Energy NNB GenCo

[email protected]


EDF Energy

• We employ nearly 14,000 people

• We generate around 20 - 25% of UK’s electricity

• We are the country’s largest producer of low carbon

electricity

• We operate eight nuclear power stations plus wind

farms, gas, and coal

• We plan to build four new nuclear reactors:

- 2 at Hinkley Point in Somerset

- 2 at Sizewell in Suffolk


Hinkley Point C

Initial Site Construction - Archaeology


NNB Knowledge Management


Nuclear New Build Projects

• Complex projects with a focus on nuclear safety!

• Covering the entire nuclear lifecycle from design,

construction, commissioning, operations, and

eventually decommissioning

• Long timescales:

Construction + Operations + Decommissioning

= Over 100 years of Knowledge to manage and

lessons to learn


Nuclear New Build Opportunity

NNB has the unique opportunity to set Knowledge

Management behaviours, culture, and standards for

the Hinkley Point C project from project inception

instead of working to change them, such as on an

operational site.


Nuclear New Build KM Strategy

The NNB approach to the development of the KM

Strategy can be summarised as:

The NNB Knowledge Management Strategy shall utilise existing

company arrangements and shall apply an integrated and

systematic approach incorporating benchmarking, learning,

and international best practices to ensure that knowledge is

shared, captured, and stored in a retrievable and accessible

format throughout the phases of the project lifecycle.


NNB KM Pilot Project – Lessons

Learned


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NNB KM Pilot Project – DA Knowledge Hub

• Engineers need to capture

design knowledge and

OPEX from the beginning

• Design Authority resources

and infrastructure

• Examined “twitter, google,

and wikipedia” type functionality

• Tools for Working Groups,

plus Engineering Wiki

function and People Pages

to supplement existing

company processes and

procedures

Lessons Learned from the DA Knowledge Hub

• Ultimately, the DA KM Hub was not rolled out for

general use across the DA but there were several

valuable lessons learned through development and

piloting which were captured to support on-going

development of the NNB KM Strategy.

- Leadership

- Corporate level strategy alignment

- Development and planning

- Communications and “soft factors”

- IT flexibility, customization, ownership


Final Thoughts



Final Thoughts on Knowledge Management

• KM is an extremely diverse subject and there are many

facets of the topic that need to be considered together

when planning and implementing a KM strategy across

an organisation.

• HPC is positioned to develop strong and sustainable

knowledge management processes that can be an

example in the industry

• Work with our stakeholders and supply chain to define

knowledge requirements

• Major safety improvements and cost/time savings if

knowledge is captured and codified as it is created

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