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On the Same (Nuclear) Pages
Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #55 Safety by Intent Merriam-Webster defines regulation as “an official rule or law that says how something should be done” and as “the act of regulating something.”...
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Nuclear Worker Training
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #56 Safety by Intent The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) of 1982, as later amended in 1987, is best known for tasking the Department of Energy (DOE) with siting,...
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Public Safety Improvements
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #57 Safety by Intent Continuing the series initiated with Disaster by Design #47, this commentary describes efforts that yielded public safety improvements. But...
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Equity within the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #58 Safety by Intent As articulated in a recent posting by UCS’s Center for Science and Democracy, UCS believes science can and should be applied to reduce racial...
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Friendly Answers Following Blowing of the Winds
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #59 Safety by Intent With ample warning, Hurricane Matthew made landfall in South Carolina coast on October 8, 2016, bringing along its heavy rainfall and high...
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Nuclear Plant Security
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #60 Security by Intent Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkits #32 and #47 described the emergency plan preparations required by federal regulations for every operating...
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The Nuclear Safety Value of “What If?”
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #61 Safety by Intent Picture a driver distracted by tuning the car’s radio or reading a very clever roadside billboard and unknowingly traveling through a stop sign...
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Protecting Against Fatigued Nuclear Plant Workers
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #62 Safety by Intent The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) revised its regulations requiring nuclear plant workers to be fit for duty on March 31, 2008, to...
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It began on July 6, 2010, with commentary about a flood inside the Unit 2 containment building at Indian Point. Fission Stories were weekly commentaries about nuclear power plant problems. Fission...
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Kudos to NRC for Lessons-Learned Review at Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility
Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #63 Safety by Intent Westinghouse Electric Corporation notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on July 14, 2016, that workers at its Columbia Fuel...
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Nuclear Plant Accidents: Fermi Unit 1
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #40 Disaster by Design Jorge Agustin Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, also known as George Santayana, wrote that “Those who cannot remember the past are...
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Nuclear Plant Accidents: Three Mile Island
Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #42 Disaster by Design At 4:00 am on March 28, 1979, workers at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania were preparing to restart the...
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You Might be Operating an Unsafe Reactor If…
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #43 Disaster by Design There are currently two empty positions on the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). If comedian Jeff Foxworthy were nominated and...
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DIBs on Nuclear Power Plant Safety
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #44 Disaster by Design Imagine that you have an extremely important appointment scheduled early tomorrow morning. To ensure that you get to the appointment on time,...
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PRA Nuclear Power Safety
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #45 Disaster by Design Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #44 described how diverse, independent barriers (DIBs) can be used to promote nuclear power plant safety....
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UCS Causes Meltdowns at US Nuclear Reactors (no, really)
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #46 Disaster by Design You won’t see it on our website. You won’t find it in materials we mail out to our members. You won’t hear it in the webinars we hold for...
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Avoiding Bad Nuclear Gas
Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #47 UCS launched this blog series about a year ago. Until now, the series focused on Disaster by Design by describing steps taken along the path to disaster,...
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Nuclear Reactors and Flood Protection
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #48 Safety by Intent Oconee Flood Protection Issue In August 2006, NRC inspectors identified a deficiency in a flood protection measure at the Oconee Nuclear...
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Nuclear Bathtub Safety
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #49 Safety by Intent In recent years, Japan’s health ministry initiated a study in response to an estimate that nearly 14,000 people die annually in bathtubs,...
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NRC’s Nuclear Maintenance Rule
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #50 Safety by Intent The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) identified a disturbing trend in the mid-80s—the number of safety problems caused by inadequate...
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Reactor Oversight Process
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #51 Safety by Intent Last week’s commentary covered the NRC’s Maintenance Rule and expressed my perspective that it was the best thing the NRC has done over the...
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Rapid Regulator Response
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #52 Safety by Intent The discovery of significant corrosion to the reactor vessel head at the Davis-Besse nuclear plant in Ohio gave the Nuclear Regulatory...
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Setting the Nuclear Safety Bar
Disaster by Design/ Safety by Intent #53 Safety by Intent Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #52, last week’s commentary, described the timely and effective response by the Nuclear Regulatory...
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Nuclear (Information) Power
Disaster by Design/Safety by Intent #54 Safety by Intent Robin Morgan wrote that “Knowledge is power. Information is power.” Among many lessons learned from the March 1979 core meltdown at Three Mile...
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