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The Knowledge Preservation Problem in the Nuclear Industry and the Role of Web-Based Tools in Its Solution
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Geraskin, N.I.; Kulikov, E.G.; Glebov, V.B. – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
This case study analyses an application of distance training in the practice of nuclear knowledge preservation. The purpose of the research is to evaluate the potential of distance training in solving the problem of knowledge preservation in the nuclear industry. Thirty specialists from different European countries participated in the pilot…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Distance Education, Knowledge Management, Electronic Learning
Network Engineering Education: Prospects for the Implementation of the Worldwide CDIO Initiative in Nuclear Areas
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Geraskin, Nikolay I.; Krasnoborodko, Andrey A.; Glebov, Vasily B. – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
This article summarises the results of a preliminary feasibility study and the experience of implementing Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) ideas during 2016-2019 in the education of nuclear specialists. The study is a form of empirical research. The results and findings regarding implementation of the CDIO approach are presented in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Nuclear Energy, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students
The Great Unescape: Three Mile Island, Fukushima, and Beyond
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Spector, Hannah – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2015
During the Second World War, the Luftwaffe ran a maximum security prisoner of war (POW) camp called "Stalag Luft III," which imprisoned captured Allied air force servicemen. The story of the 1944 escape from Stalag Luft III is one of the most famous stories of the Second World War as described in the firsthand written account and…
Descriptors: War, Nuclear Energy, Facilities, Accidents
Ecological Consciousness of a Personality Living in an Ecologically Unfavorable Region
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Jumazhanova, Gulzhanar; Tursungozhinova, Gulnar; Belenko, Oxana; Iskakova, Marzhan; Amanova, Aray – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This article covers on the matters which allow stating that people living in the areas with unfavorable ecological conditions experience long-term psycho-traumatic psychological stress caused by exaggeration of irradiation danger and its aftereffects for health. The reasons for long-term psychological stress as per the results of questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Mental Health, Stress Variables, Questionnaires
Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden. NBER Working Paper No. 13347
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Almond, Douglas; Edlund, Lena; Palme, Marten – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits the natural experiment generated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986, which caused a spike in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prenatal Influences, Cognitive Ability, Academic Achievement