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Abstract
Since 1984 government‐funded fast reactor R&D in France, Germany and the UK has been run as a collaborative activity, and since 1988 as a unified programme in support of the design and construction of the advanced European Fast Reactor. This paper describes the international management structure which has been set up, and the means used to control the work. It is written from the point of view of those engaged in the project, and makes no attempt at a formal analysis of the structure.
The main difficulty is that control of funding remains with the three governments. The R&D programme has to be managed so that it meets the needs of each government separately as well as the designers' requirements.
To start with the management structure was excessively bureaucratic, but it has become more flexible and efficient. This has happened as the initial nationalistic suspicions have broken down, and the staff engaged in the work have learnt more about each others' ways of working so that an atmosphere of trust and inter‐dependence has grown up.
(This paper was written before the changes in UK policy on fast reactor development were announced in November 1992.)
Building large water diversion projects to form a grand national or regional water network is an important option to address the water crisis. It is necessary to explore the systems for managing large water network projects. This paper studied the management systems for large water network projects based on the institutional change theory. It put forward a set of innovative management options for the South-to-North Water Diversion (SNWD) project, the Three Gorges project and other similar projects in China. A comparative of these options, in both qualitative and quantitative terms, was conducted based on SWOT analysis and comprehensive expert evaluation. This paper finally proposed a recommended option, which requires the SNWD project, the Three Gorges project and the Danjiangkou reservoir to be managed together, and reservoirs along the three projects to be managed by local authorities.
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