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Friday, April 25, 2014

Safety Culture at the NRC Regulatory Information Conference

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NRC Public Meeting The NRC held their annual Regulatory Information Conference (RIC) March 11-13, 2014.  It included a session on safety...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Assessing Safety Culture Using Cultural Attributes

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Two weeks ago we posted on NUREG-2165 , a document that formalizes a “common language” for describing nuclear safety culture (SC).  The NU...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

GM’s CEO Revealing Revelation

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GM CEO Mary Barra As most of our readers are aware General Motors has been much in the news of late regarding a safety issue associate...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014

NRC Issues Safety Culture Common Language NUREG

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The NRC has issued NUREG-2165 * which formalizes the safety culture (SC) common language that has been under development since the NRC S...
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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 ...