Substack Daily Updates – 2-19-26

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• NRC Sends Foreign Ownership Direct Final Rule to OMB – Would allow limited foreign ownership of nuclear reactors in US – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/nrc-sends-foreign-ownership-direct.html

• CSB Publishes Volume 4 of Their Incident Reports Series – 2-18-26 – Company conducted investigations support CSB chemical safety mission – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/csb-publishes-volume-4-of-their.html

• Review – HR 7338 Introduced – RSAC Codification – Would provide in statute for the recently re-chartered Railroad Safety Advisory Committee – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/review-hr-7338-introduced-rsac.html

• Review – 4 Advisories Published – 2-19-26 – NCCIC-ICS control system security advisories for products from Welker, Jinan USR IOT Technology, Valmet, and EnOcean Edge – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/review-4-advisories-published-2-19-26.html

• NASA Releases Starliner CFT Investigation Report – Isaacman’s comment on management issues is drawing attention – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/nasa-releases-starliner-cft.html

I posted the following to my social media feeds (X, Mastodon, Substack, and LinkedIn):

• I posted the following to a discussion on Mastodon about Russian claims of decrypted intercepts of Telegram messages: “And the Germans never noted any breaches of its Enigma encryption system in WWII. It is not like a foreign intelligence service would announce that it had decrypted a major source of enemy communications.”