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Showing posts with label Regulatory Capture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regulatory Capture. Show all posts
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Nuclear Regulator and Licensee Safety Culture Interrelationships

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The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has published an interesting report * on its research into how nuclear regulators and nuclear power plant op...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Fukushima and Volkswagen: Systemic Similarities and Observations for the U.S. Nuclear Industry

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Fukushima VW Logo (Source: Wikipedia) Recent New York Times articles* have described the activities, culture and context of...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

Notes on Regulatory Capture

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NRC Public Meeting A couple of recent local news items discuss a too-cozy relationship between regulators and the supposedly regulated, ...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

National Research Council: Safety Culture Lessons Learned from Fukushima

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The National Research Council has released a report * on lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident that may be applicable to U...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Safety Culture at Tohoku Electric vs. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)

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Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) An op-ed* in the Japan Times asserts that the root cause of the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) plant’s failures fol...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Regulatory Creep

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The NRC's assessment of safety culture (SC) is an example of regulatory creep.  It began with the requirement that licensees determine...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Drift Into Failure by Sydney Dekker

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Sydney Dekker's Drift Into Failure * is a noteworthy effort to provide new insights into how accidents and other bad outcomes occur i...