Abstract: Two Nuclear Safety Advisory Letters (NSALs), advise operators of PWRs that they may assume, in accident analyses, that certain safety and relief valves can open, relieve water, and then reseat properly. The NSALs claim ...

Abstract: Nuclear safety analysis and licensing criteria are based upon the concept that plant situations that are expected to have a high frequency of occurrence must not pose a danger to the public, and that plant situations that ...

Abstract: A lack of knowledge acquisition (LOKA), among engineering staff members in supply firms (e.g., vendors), owner/operator utilities (e.g., licensees), and in regulatory agencies (e.g., the NRC), can impair nuclear power plant ...

Abstract: The annual audit plan of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which was issued in November 2020, included an audit of the NRC’s practice of allowing “dropin” visits. These ...

Abstract: The annual audit plan of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which was issued in November 2020, included an audit of the NRC’s practice of allowing “drop-in” visits. These ...