Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

Entergy Headquarters TVA Headquarters We haven’t reported for awhile on the activities of the two plant operators who dominate the...

Pilgrim Watts Bar A couple of recent reports address the nuclear safety culture (NSC) problems at Pilgrim and Watts Bar.  This post...

NRC 2017 RIC Nuclear Safety Culture (NSC) was assigned one technical session at the 2017 NRC Regulatory Information Conference (RIC).  T...

NRC Building No big nuclear safety culture (NSC) news has come out of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) so far in 2017 but there h...

©iStockphoto.com The start of a new year is an opportunity to take stock of the current situation in the U.S. nuclear industry and reite...

Pilgrim Entergy’s Pilgrim station has been in Column 4 of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Action Matrix since September 2015...

Watts Bar A recent NRC inspection report * was very critical of both the Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE) and the larger Nuclear...

NUREG-1650 cover The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently published NUREG-1650, rev. 6, the seventh national report for the Conv...

Republic of Korea flag We recently read two journal articles that present the Korean perspective on nuclear safety culture (NSC), one fr...

Arkansas Nuclear One (credit: Edibobb ) On June 25, 2015 we posted about Arkansas Nuclear One’s (ANO) performance problems (a stator dr...

Our Perspective The facts and circumstances of the events described in Table 1 in Part 1 point to a common driver - the collision of...