Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

In the last few years, nuclear plant owners have shut down or scheduled for shutdown 17 units totaling over 14,000 MW.  Over half of these...

©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...

Entergy Headquarters  Source: Nola.com A recent NRC press release * announced a Confirmatory Order (CO) issued to Entergy Operations, In...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Investigations (OI) recently released its FY2014 annual report .*  The OI investigates a...

Our last Palisades post was on January 30, 2013 where we described the tortuous logic the NRC employed to conclude Palisades’ safety cult...

In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass , Alice and the White Queen advance into the chessboard's fifth rank by crossing over a...

NRC SC Brochure ML113490097 On March 17 , July 3 and October 17 , 2012 we posted on NRC safety culture (SC) related activities with ind...

On March 17 we published a post on NRC safety culture (SC) related activities with individual licensees since the SC policy statement was...

“Cognitive dissonance” is the tension that arises from holding two conflicting thoughts in one’s mind at the same time.  Here’s a candida...

NRC SC poster, ADAMS ML120810464. On March 17th we published a post on NRC safety culture (SC) related activities with individual lice...

Last March, the NRC approved its safety culture policy statement.*  At the time, a majority of commissioners issued supplemental comments ...

To tell the truth, I have no idea.  But the plant has an interesting history and reviewing it may give us some hints with respect to the c...

The Palisades nuclear plant is in trouble with the NRC.  On Jan. 11, 2012 the NRC met with Entergy (the plant’s owner and operator) to dis...