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Access the latest bulletins sharing real-world learnings from across the process and nuclear safety community.

Issue No. 1 – Feyzin

How an escalating LPG release and fire demonstrated the importance of plant layout, emergency response and understanding BLEVE hazards.

Issue No. 2 – Challenger and Columbia

How technical warning signs can be weakened by organisational pressure, flawed communication and the normalisation of recurring problems.

Issue No. 3 – Fukushima Daiichi

How assumptions about extreme events and the loss of interconnected safeguards challenged the resilience of an entire nuclear site.

Issue No. 4 – Chernobyl

How technical weaknesses, organisational pressure and operation outside intended limits combined in a catastrophic system failure.

Issue No. 5 – Didion Milling

How combustible dust hazards, inadequate engineering controls and repeated warning signs culminated in a fatal industrial explosion.

Issue No. 6 – Air France Flight 447

How automation, human factors and loss of situational awareness turned a recoverable event into a catastrophe.

Issue No. 7 – Seveso

How an uncontrolled chemical reaction and toxic release reshaped Europe’s approach to major accident prevention.

Issue No. 8 – ExxonMobil Rotterdam

How a complex restart, misunderstood system interactions and changing operating conditions led to a major refinery fire.

Issue No 9 -Toulouse 25 years

The Toulouse accident shows how familiar materials such as ammonium nitrate can still cause catastrophic consequences when their condition, storage and major accident potential are not fully understood.