Stakeholders management in nuclear power plants : an analysis in six different countries

The aim of this thesis work is to analyze and compare the stakeholders involved in the construction of the Nuclear Power Plants of different countries, in order to (1) Understand how the nuclear industry has been developed in different countries; (2) Recognize the importance of stakeholders in megaprojects; (3) Have a reference guideline of nuclear projects already developed; (4) Generate a model of stakeholder configuration based on the experience of six different countries, to apply to a newcomer country interested in building a nuclear infrastructure. It was emphasized the importance of the stakeholders management by showing the influences they can have in order to achieve their goals. In this respect, it was followed the (Frooman, 1999)’s approach, by answering the three questions that open the path to the methodology used: “who are they” (Attributes); “what do they want” (their Ends) and “how are they going to get it” (Means). The stakeholders’ attributes identification was based on the Power, Legitimacy and Urgency theory. After this process, six countries were studied, which have a long history in the construction of Nuclear Power Plants. France, United Kingdom, Finland, Japan, United States and Korea are pioneer counties in the development of nuclear energy. Each one of them has a different approach according to their internal conditions, the nature of the utilities and the role of the state. Consequently, the stakeholders’ organization is different and becomes a key to understand how the nuclear energy projects are managed in each country. For the analysis and classification of the stakeholders it was used the framework based on the Power, Legitimacy and Urgency theory, with the purpose of giving them the necessary attributes that will evidence the importance of each one of them inside the network. Finally this analysis led to four model structures that were applied to a newcomer country interested in initiate nuclear generation projects.