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Thursday, July 29, 2010

NRC Decision on FPL (Part 2)

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NRR Director’s decision addresses FPL Retention Bonus Agreement and ECP . As described in our previous post , a decision by the NRC’s Dire...
Monday, July 26, 2010

NRC Decision on FPL (Part 1)

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NRR Director’s decision addresses FPL Retention Bonus Agreement and ECP . A decision by the NRC’s Director of NRR (DD-10-01) was released la...
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Transocean Safety Culture and Surveys

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An article in today’s New York Times, “Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Concern About Safety”  reports on the safety culture on the Deepwater Ho...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Nuclear Management Compensation (Part 2)

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In Part 1 we provided the results of our survey of nuclear executive compensation levels, structure and performance metrics.  In this ...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Nuclear Management Compensation (Part 1)

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We have posted previously on the general topic of competing priorities (cost, schedule, political, personal career interest, etc.) bein...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Safety, Cost and Bonuses

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An article in the June 29, 2010 Wall Street Journal , “As CEO Hayward Remade BP, Safety, Cost Drives Clashed”, fills in some real world exam...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Can Safety Culture Be Regulated? (Part 2)

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Part 1 of this topic covered the factors important to safety culture and amenable to measurement or assessment, the “known knowns.”   In thi...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Regulatory Failure

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...or how I learned to stop worrying and love the ROP.  A June 28, 2010 Wall Street Journal column titled, “Drilling for Better Information...