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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

National Research Council: Safety Culture Lessons Learned from Fukushima

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The National Research Council has released a report * on lessons learned from the Fukushima nuclear accident that may be applicable to U...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Palisades: Back in the NRC’s Safety Culture Dog House

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Our last Palisades post was on January 30, 2013 where we described the tortuous logic the NRC employed to conclude Palisades’ safety cult...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The European Union Shows Stronger Interest in Nuclear Safety Culture

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Council of the EU building The Council of the European Union (EU) recently updated its 2009 Nuclear Safety Directive.  The revised direc...
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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...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Reaction to the Valukas Report on GM Ignition Switch Problems

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CEO Mary Barra and Anton Valukas General Motors released the report * by its outside attorney, Anton Valukas, investigating the hows and...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Regulatory Oversight of Safety Culture in Belgium

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The latest International Nuclear Safety Journal has an article * by Benoit Bernard describing a new safety culture (SC) regulatory oversight...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

NRC Non-Concurrence Process Assessment: Tempest in a Teapot?

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On June 4, 2014 the NRC announced a revised agency-wide non-concurrence process (NCP) on their blog .*  A key objective of the NCP is “to ...