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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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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

NRC "National Report" to IAEA

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A March 25, 2014 NRC press release * announced that Chairman Macfarlane presented the Sixth National Report for the Convention on Nuclear ...
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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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Friday, March 14, 2014

Deficient Safety Culture at Metro-North Railroad

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A new Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) report* excoriates the safety performance of the Metro-North Commuter Railroad which serves ...
Thursday, March 13, 2014

Eliminate the Bad Before Attempting the Good

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An article* in the McKinsey Quarterly suggests executives work at rooting out destructive behaviors before attempting to institute best pr...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Declining Safety Culture at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant?

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DOE WIPP Here’s another nuclear-related facility you may or may not know about: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot P...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rosenzweig

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In this new book* Rosenzweig extends the work of Kahneman and other scholars to consider real-world decisions.  He examines how the conten...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Lessons Learned from “Lessons Learned”: The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents by Blandford and May

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This publication appeared on a nuclear safety online discussion board.*  It is a high-level review of significant commercial nuclear indus...