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Showing posts with label Chernobyl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chernobyl. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Learning About Nuclear Safety Culture from the Web, Maybe

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The Internet  Source:Wikipedia We’ve come across some Internet content (one website, one article) that purports to inform the reader abo...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

A Professor's Essay on Nuclear Safety Culture

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Prof. Najmedin Meshkati recently published an article * that reviews how the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters demonstrated the essentia...
Friday, October 2, 2015

Training Materials for Teaching NRC Personnel about Safety Culture

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This is a companion piece to our Aug. 24, 2015 post on how the NRC effectively regulates licensee safety culture (SC) in the absence of a...
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Monday, November 3, 2014

A Life In Error by James Reason

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Most of us associate psychologist James Reason with the “Swiss Cheese Model” of defense in depth or possibly the notion of a “just cu...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Lessons Learned from “Lessons Learned”: The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents by Blandford and May

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This publication appeared on a nuclear safety online discussion board.*  It is a high-level review of significant commercial nuclear indus...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow

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This book*, originally published in 1984, is a regular reference for authors writing about complex socio-technical systems.**  Perrow'...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

The Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dörner

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This book was mentioned in a nuclear safety discussion forum so we figured this is a good time to revisit Dörner's 1989 tome.* Below...
Friday, February 4, 2011

“I Hope For All Our Sakes This is Right”

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On January 24, 2011 the NRC Commissioners met to review the proposed policy statement on nuclear safety culture developed by the NRC staf...