I have been working in the nuclear industry since I graduated following my studies in 2005. I worked in Canada for the Canadian Nuclear Research Laboratories (AECL), in France consulting for EDF and some work with the British side of things, in Belgium consulting for Tractebel/Engie and lately in the Netherlands for a research reactor project.
So I was very lucky to see different facets of the nuclear industry and nuclear research field. Individuals, management, organizations, can all have some sort of impact (+/-) on nuclear safety (and safety in general). The concept of safety can range anywhere from our perception of safety, to a philosophical debate or just a scientific one with facts. While I would like at some point in the future to detail my various experiences and what I have experienced throughout different organizations and what I have faced with different type of individuals at the moment I would like to point out to the fact that the purpose of this website is not to claim that accidents (nuclear or non nuclear) won’t happen just because we check the facts about nuclear science and engineering. Nuclear accidents do happen and they did happen, just like anywhere else (as far as I know accidents, from a human standpoint if it means death or harm, can happen all over the universe). Heck, maybe you were an accident ! 😀
The purpose of the website isn’t to claim either that nuclear safety is as good as where humanity could get it to. There are different economical models for different purposes based on what is being tried to achieve… but maybe to be detailed later on.
There are as well questionable individuals, management and organizations just like anywhere else and maybe the economical models used aren’t optimum but in the end the nuclear science and engineering field are based on facts. The purpose of the website is to advocate the use of facts against facts.