Forwarded for your comments. Best Regards, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts 21 Broadleaf Circle Windsor, CT 06095-1634 ...
Colleagues, I am afraid that we are headed down a path from which there is no apparent return. In the twelfth month after the Davis-Besse shutdown the station...
Bill Corcoran
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May 4, 2003 11:53 am
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Bill, I would be interested in the Haber report you have mentioned. Charlie Mahon...
Richard, This responds to your first point. Just because "it is that something" does not keep it from being a precursor!! In fact, many rooticians say that the...
Dr. Corcoran, An area of interest at our station, and I assume others, for Maintenance human performance, is the lingering question of the impact extended work...
Derrick Most of the work on the impact of work schedules of which I am aware has focused on operations. There is reason to believe that the conclusions would ...
Thanks to John Honey for passing making this available. Best Regards, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts 21 Broadleaf...
Bill Salot, Thanks for snapping my jockeys on this one. I agree with you. If you go back to basics and remember that a precursor is a situation that has some,...
Bernie, You are correct. The topology of success is the same as the topology of failure. The causal factors of a disaster can be represented in the standard...
Bob and all, The Five Why's, like the Ishikawa Fish Bone, is better than nothing, but amounts to an expeditious brainstorming tool rather than a root cause...
Colleague, Would you be so kind as to think about the following and respond? There are many dimensions of causes. A given cause can have many dimensions. Some...
Colleague, There have been recent statements in this forum that suggest that the only thing to do about a root cause is to eliminate it. There are many root...
Bob Nelms, I'd rather have a discussion than an argument about latency. (A discussion is an argument in which nobody loses their cool.) Latency is a key...
Bernie, That's great. You have introduced a new dimension for causes: Culpability. It has two possible values: Innocent and Not Innocent. Causes that were...
Vee, Here's my shot at summing up latent causes. Please jump in with your suggestions and corrections. Latent causes are usually conditions. They are less...
Paks Nuclear Power Plant in Hungary had a serious fuel damaging event on April 11. They were in the process of chemically cleaning fuel assemblies when they...
Glenn: I read the Paks RCA report. As a non-nuke, I can't say that I understand much of the report, but I do have two questions: 1.. Which was more...
wjsalot
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May 24, 2003 11:00 pm
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Bill Salot, The bottom line, or so it seems to me at this moment, is that there is no good all purpose blanket word for what to do about a cause. Using a...
Here is an example of how a root cause was "handled" by the Federal Aviation Administration. I proved that a Federal Aviation Regulation has a technical...
Bill, Thanks for the offer. I look forward to reviewing the handbook. I will be happy to provide you any comments from my review. Anything else can I do to ...
Sign me up, please. I'd like a copy also. Thanks, Jim Brown ... From: Bill Corcoran [mailto:firebird.one@...] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:00 AM ...
Please sign me up for a copy. Thank y Charles Dickerman ... From: Bill Corcoran [mailto:firebird.one@...] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:00 AM To:...
Bill I would like to see the improvements in the handbook if possible. Thanks Tom Harrington ... From: Root_Cause_State_of_the_Practice@yahoogroups.com ...
It is clear that the choice of what to investigate will heavily influence the results of the investigation. This is certainly true whether one uses the Why...
Bill, in my opinion DB should improve the instrumentation and the training for control room personnel. In German NPP is the so called "Leakage Monitoring...
Please scroll down for an exciting update. Best Regards, Bill Corcoran W. R. Corcoran, Ph.D., P.E. Nuclear Safety Review Concepts 21 Broadleaf Circle Windsor,...
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