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Showing posts with label SCWE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCWE. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Catching Up with Nuclear Safety Culture’s Bad Boys: Entergy and TVA

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Entergy Headquarters TVA Headquarters We haven’t reported for awhile on the activities of the two plant operators who dominate the...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Nuclear Safety Culture: Catching up with the NRC

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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...
Monday, November 14, 2016

NRC Identifies Nuclear Safety Culture Problems at Watts Bar. What a Surprise.

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Watts Bar A recent NRC inspection report * was very critical of both the Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE) and the larger Nuclear...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Nuclear Safety Culture Problem at TVA: NRC Issues Chilling Effect Letter to Watts Bar

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Watts Bar  Source: Wikipedia The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently sent a “chilling effect letter”* (CEL) to the Tenness...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

New Safety Culture Assessment at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant

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Hanford WTP The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the latest safety culture (SC) assessment report * for the Hanford Waste Tr...
Friday, June 5, 2015

NRC Staff Review of National Research Council Safety Culture Recommendations Arising from Fukushima

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On July 30, 2014 we reviewed the safety culture (SC) aspects of the National Research Council report on lessons learned from the Fukushim...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Vit Plant Safety Culture Update

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Hanford Waste Treatment Plant DOE released a June 2014 follow-up assessment * on safety culture (SC) at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plan...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Catching Up on DOE’s SCWE Extent of Condition Review

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Hanford Waste Treatment Plant On May 29, 2014 DOE submitted its partial response to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB...
Saturday, May 3, 2014

DOE Report on WIPP's Safety Culture

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On Feb. 14, 2014, an incident at the Department of Energy (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) resulted in the release of radioactive ...
Monday, March 31, 2014

Our Gaze Returns to DOE and its Safety Culture

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The Department of Energy (DOE) recently submitted a report* to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) covering DOE’s evalua...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

A New Sheriff Coming to DOE?

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On April 9th, the nominee for Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz, appeared before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources....