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Monday, September 21, 2015

Notes on Regulatory Capture

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NRC Public Meeting A couple of recent local news items discuss a too-cozy relationship between regulators and the supposedly regulated, ...
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Thursday, September 10, 2015

DNFSB Hearing on Safety Culture Progress at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP)

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The WTP aka the Vit Plant On August 26, 2015 the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) held a hearing in the Hanford area to r...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

NRC Regulation of Safety Culture: How They Do It

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We have griped many times about how the NRC does, in fact, regulate (i.e., control or direct) licensee safety culture (SC) even though the...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

CPUC Proposes to Probe PG&E’s Culture

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CPUC Headquarters (Source: Coolcaesar on en.wikipedia) Yesterday’s edition of a Bay Area newspaper included a report * on a California P...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

A Quiet Conclusion to Millstone’s TDAFW Pump Problem

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Millstone On Jan. 15, 2015 we posted about the long time it took Millstone to correctly evaluate and fix a problem with a turbine-drive...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Obtain Better Decisions by Asking Better Questions

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We’re currently experiencing a reduced flow of quality feedstock into our safety culture mill.  But we did see a reference to a Harvard Bu...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

Fixing General Motors’ Culture—Any Lessons for Nuclear?

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GM Headquarters In a recent interview * with LinkedIn, General Motors CEO Mary Barra discussed her plan for fixing GM’s culture.  The in...
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Friday, July 3, 2015

New Safety Culture Assessment at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant

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Hanford WTP The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the latest safety culture (SC) assessment report * for the Hanford Waste Tr...