Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

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

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...

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

As we have mentioned before , we are perplexed that people are still spending time working on safety culture definitions. After all, it’s n...

It appears that the safety culture at Vermont Yankee continues to interest the NRC, given the discussion during the recent public meeting re...

In our April 5, 2010 post re Vermont Yankee we provided some initial thoughts on the report of the independent investigator regarding mi...

On March 31, 2010, Entergy transmitted to the NRC key findings of the Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP investigation of misstatements by Ente...

There was an interesting article in the March 22, 2010 Hartford Courant regarding Paul Blanch , the former Northeast Utilities engineer who ...

The "Reason" in the title refers to Dr. James Reason, Professor Emeritus , Department of Psychology, University of Manchester. ...

This week saw a very significant development in the nuclear industry and the potential consequences of safety culture issues on a specific p...