Month: March 2014

Students from “closed” Russian city visit PSEG Nuclear

Author: Joe Delmar

Each year, thousands of students visit USA fleet member PSEG Nuclear and its Energy & Environmental Resource Center (EERC) community information center. Recently, a group of students from the Russian “closed city” of Novouralsk made the visit as they toured the United States to learn more about the American nuclear industry. The visit was organized...

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STP employees support Relay for Life

Author: Buddy Eller

STP employees were out in force on Friday, March 7, participating in the annual Matagorda County American Cancer Society Relay for Life event. The walkathon to support cancer research began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended with the closing lap Saturday morning at 5 a.m. A total of more than $113,000 was raised at this...

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PSEG Nuclear and AREVA extend contract

Author: Joe Delmar

USA fleet member PSEG Nuclear has extended, through 2022, the contract signed with USA supplier AREVA Inc. for outage and maintenance activities at the Salem and Hope Creek Generating Stations. As an extension of the contract signed in July 2013, AREVA will continue to provide its technical support to PSEG’s pressurized and boiling water reactors...

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The synergies of a fleet: Alpha contamination controls and monitoring

Author: Stephen Tait

In early February, Radiation Protection representatives from each of the Utilities Service Alliance fleet members gathered for a week-long work shop at DC Cook with a singular goal: developing a fleet-wide program to control and monitor alpha contamination. The effort that stems from EPRI’s revision to industry guidelines for alpha contamination; the industry has until...

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USA Fukushima team ensuring plants can respond

Author: Joe Delmar

March 11, 2014 marks the third anniversary since the accident at the Fukushima Plant in Japan. The lessons learned from this event have had worldwide implications. Within the United States, new rule making and industry initiatives have been put in place to ensure that all our plants can respond to a beyond design basis accident....

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