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Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Foolproof by Greg Ip: Insights for the Nuclear Industry

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This book* is primarily about systemic lessons learned from the 2008 U.S. financial crisis and, to a lesser extent, various European euro ...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Cultural Tidbits from McKinsey

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We spent a little time poking around the McKinsey* website looking for items that could be related to safety culture and found a couple. ...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

IAEA International Conference on Operational Safety, including Safety Culture

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IAEA Building Back in June, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) hosted an International Conference on Operational Safety .*  C...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Training Materials for Teaching NRC Personnel about Safety Culture

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This is a companion piece to our Aug. 24, 2015 post on how the NRC effectively regulates licensee safety culture (SC) in the absence of a...
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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...