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Re: Pursuit of Excellence [was GAO Opens DB investigation]
In this business, anything less than excellence is not "good enough." Complacency with "good enough" is what gets you in trouble. Those who can't or won't accept this philosophy are our real enemies.
You raise a good point about INPO. This is something that should have been on its radar.
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
OFFTOWY@AOL.COM wrote:
> William V. Lipton wrote:
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> >>It's not just me, it's the commercial nuclear power industry that disagrees with your philosophy. For example, the INPO radiation protection guidelines (INPO 91-0914 revision 1) states, "Pursuit of excellence in radiological protection involves striving for a level of performance that is well beyond minimum regulatory requirements..." <<
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> The INPO document is discussing "pursuit of excellence." Is pursuit of excellence some sort of religion? There may be a variety of business reasons to enter into such a pursuit, but there are also equally valid reasons for saying "enough is enough." I think Ruth's point was, "Why can't the regs be good enough?" Not excellent, but good enough. And the DB situation does not demonstrate anything about the adequacy of the regs as it appears that they (DB) were not in compliance. Perhaps compliance would have been good enough. And let's not forget, the ever-excellent INPO assessors have been in and out of DB multiple times, too.
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> Lew LaGarde
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