Safety Culture Assessments and Surveys

It appears that the safety culture at Vermont Yankee continues to interest the NRC, given the discussion during the recent public meeting related to VY's safety culture survey. We will soon be posting our additional thoughts on the nature of safety culture but for some background material, we suggest our posts of August 17, 2009 (Safety Culture Assessment), August 24, 2009 (Assessment Results) and August 26, 2009 (Can Assessments Identify/Breed Complacency). You might want to check these out in light of the attention safety culture surveys are receiving.