UKAEA - MasTec

Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities

UKAEA is responsible for managing the decommissioning of the nuclear reactors and other radioactive facilities used for the UK's nuclear research and development programme in a safe and environmentally sensitive manner. UKAEA’s objective is to essentially restore the sites for conventional use.

The organisation holds detailed information on each of the buildings that they are responsible for. This includes the location and levels of asbestos contamination. UKAEA held information in the form of drawings, data and images, but this information was not previously accessible to a wider audience of UKAEA’s staff. UKAEA wanted a system in place that would allow it to distribute information to the relevant people in an easy and accessible way.

the original system

Before asking ESiT to develop a website based on ESiT’s webMiT technology, UKAEA had no way of making the asbestos management data, images and drawings held in five separate SQL server 2000 databases at Harwell available to a wider audience.

The new website would enable the data, images and drawings to be made available to a wider audience in a read-only respect. This facility would protect the integrity of the data.

the new system

With the MasTec Asbestos website in place any member of staff at UKAEA with access to the relevant area of the UKAEA intranet may now search and view the data, images and drawings held in the five asbestos databases.

Consequently, UKAEA engineers at Culham, Harwell and Windscale can now gain access to live data, images and drawings relating to the location of asbestos contamination in any building that they will be working in. The images alos show asbestos hot spots which link back to information on the databases. This enables them to plan their work accordingly.

In the future, UKAEA has expressed an interest in making asbestos management data available from the three other sites in the UK by modifying the website.

the benefits

The webMiT solution will provide UKAEA with:

• The ability to share knowledge throughout its organisation for the live asbestos management data.
• Time and cost savings through reduction of requests for information to asbestos management managers.

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