Web-based communication platforms, publications, videos, lectures, teaching and training, linguistic polishing of documents.
BACKGROUND
Geological disposal projects are implemented over timescales lasting from decades to centuries and must demonstrate safety over hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
Communication – and associated training to assure transfer of tacit knowledge – is a key issue, both internally within implementing and regulatory organisations and externally with politicians, professional organisations, academia, the general public and any other interested stakeholders.
Extensive experience was gained through general and bespoke courses run by the International Training Centre (ITC), video projects and communication platforms developed for presentation of Japanese safety cases and Fukushima remediation.
EXPERIENCE
Geological disposal projects are implemented over timescales lasting from decades to centuries and must demonstrate safety over hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
Communication – and associated training to assure transfer of tacit knowledge – is a key issue, both internally within implementing and regulatory organisations and externally with politicians, professional organisations, academia, the general public and any other interested stakeholders.
The team has extensive experience gained through participation in / coordination of general and bespoke courses run by the International Training Centre (ITC), video projects and communication platforms developed for presentation of Japanese safety cases and Fukushima remediation and teaching at UK and Japanese universities.
Relevant publications include:
- Shimada H., Kumagai T., Takase H., McKinley I.G., Someya S., Miyagawa, T., Henderson, A. and McClowry, S. (2013). Developing a CCS communication framework for Japan. Energy Procedia, 37, 7395-7402.
- West J.M. and McKinley L.E. (2007). Building confidence in the safe disposal of radioactive waste. In Alexander W.R. & McKinley L.E. (Eds), Deep geological disposal of radioactive waste, Elsevier, pp. 227-249.
- Vomvoris S., Kickmaier W. and McKinley I.G. (2004). Education and Training in Nuclear Waste Management. NWMO Background Paper 7-12. Nuclear Waste Management Organisation of Canada. 146 pps.
- West J.M., Alexander W.R., Kaku K., McKinley I.G. and Shimmura A. (2001). Communication of nuclear power concepts to stakeholders - the use of nature’s own laboratories. Proc. NUCEP conf.
- McKinley I.G., Birkhäuser P., Kickmaier W., Vomvoris S. and Zuidema P. (2000). Transfer of radioactive waste management expertise from Switzerland to other countries with small nuclear power programmes. Proc. Croatian Nuc. Soc. Int. Conf. Nuclear option in countries with small and medium electricity grid, 487-494.
Coolrep
CoolRep - or cool reporting - is the next generation in scientific reporting. It is structured to be accessed on a computer and to make use of the multitude of communication tools that are available from modern software and/or accessible over the internet. The fundamental goal is that CoolRep should serve as a gateway that allows any user to access the information they desire, at a suitable level of technical detail and in a format that is most convenient for them.
