What opportunities do digitalization and artificial intelligence provide for a more sustainable approach in complex projects? The question was asked by NND under Arendalsuka who is stepping down these days. (watch the full lunch seminar here)
In the Science Center in Arendal, the hall is filled with spectators. NND's CEO Pål Mikkelsen, AF Gruppen's Eirik Lind Hånes and David Hansen at Microsoft will each open a lecture on the topic.
The fourth inductee is NND's IT Manager, Ole Jakob Ottestad. He answers NND's own question about what new technologies and IT can contribute.
For four years, the consortium ICCircle has been working on creating a complete IT system for planning and executing decommissioning, and waste management in the nuclear sector on order from NND. With the system, you will get a more sustainable decommissioning. Sustainable in a broad sense.
“With the system, we will have safer processes, better management of waste streams and, in addition, we have participated in business development,” Ottestad says after the seminar. He is the one in NND who has been in charge of the development of the system.
“The system helps us make sustainable choices in all parts of decommissioning and waste management,” says Ole Jakob Ottestad. ,
NND has funded it in the nuclear context unique system. The system will now be further developed and put into use by more than the Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The system has great potential beyond that nuclear range.
Parliamentary representative Sverre Myrli from the Labour Party (See video further down in the case) and County Councillor in Akershus, Solveig Schytz from the Liberal Party, are also concerned about business development when large public funds are to be spent on the task of decommissioning.
“We must work so that spending money is not seen as a cost, but that we build knowledge that is used outside of nuclear,” she says in the panel discussion after the four speakers.
Sverre Myrli is on the same street: -When we are going to spend so much money, we have to look at the opportunity that lies here, and what ripple effects we can have, Myrli states.
“It concerns skills, jobs and business development,” he continues in a video interview with NND after the seminar.
Myrli points to industries such as offshore wind and mining projects, but also other industries, and that we need to think holistically and include that at the end of the road for industrial projects we start, we will clean up after us when the project is finished.
