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Regulatory Intelligence — Nuclear · Aerospace · High-Consequence Systems
The reactor trips. The aircraft is grounded. The system fails.
What happens next is decided by regulation, not physics. The Compliance Gap tracks the point where technical failure becomes legal exposure — written for engineers who end up in depositions, and lawyers who need to understand the control room before they can cross-examine it.
Where technical complexity meets legal consequence.
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