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Friday, March 25, 2016

Nuclear Safety Culture Problem at TVA: NRC Issues Chilling Effect Letter to Watts Bar

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Watts Bar  Source: Wikipedia The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently sent a “chilling effect letter”* (CEL) to the Tenness...
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Thursday, March 17, 2016

IAEA Nuclear Safety Culture Conference

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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently sponsored a week-long conference* to celebrate 30 years of interest and work in s...
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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Leadership and Safety Culture

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Cover of the first issue It’s an election year in America and voters are assessing candidates who all claim they can provide the leaders...
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Thursday, March 3, 2016

2016 NEA Report on Fukushima Lessons Learned

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Five years after the Fukushima disaster, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has released an updated report * on Fukushima lessons learned.  I...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

The Dark Side of Culture Management: Functional Stupidity

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Culture is the collection of values and assumptions that underlie organizational decisions and other actions.  We have long encouraged org...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

DOE Inspector General Piles On: Bechtel CAP and DOE Oversight Deficient at the Vit Plant

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The Department of Energy (DOE) Inspector General (IG) recently released an audit report * on deficiencies in Bechtel’s Corrective Action...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

NEA’s Safety Culture Guidance for Nuclear Regulators

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A recent Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) publication * describes desirable safety culture (SC) characteristics for a nuclear regulator.  Its p...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Ethics, Individual Misconduct and Organizational Culture

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Ethics* are rules for conduct or behavior.  They are basically a social (as opposed to an individual or psychological) construct and part ...
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