**1. Introduction**

The goal of this paper is to present some results related to possible connections identified between aspects of creativity in science and technology and old cultural topics and paradigms. The analysis is performed for some specific cases for nuclear physics and nuclear energy issues considered of interest in the Romanian environment. Five cases were analyzed:


	- **Case D:** Romanian nuclear program
	- **• Case E:** An example of an individual experience of training and working in diverse cultural environments in nuclear energy

The evaluation method is based on some important results available in literature on the aspects analyzed in this paper, as follows:


The change from one step to another in the knowledge management process (KMP) and the creation of a new set of paradigms are driven by the need to find solutions to strong "conflicts" between facts and theories. Those solutions are generated by a process that can be described as being similar to a "syphoning process" between science/technology and culture. Culture is used in the sense of condensed societal set of beliefs acting for all aspects in science and art/ culture, which may be called "mythology." In other words, deep old embedded in the social conscience (old knowledge as reflected in folklore for instance, but not only in it) are the real sources for building the new set of paradigms to solve critical/crisis type of problems in a science.
