Month: April 2014

Monticello begins external flooding barrier project

Author: Lisa Kuehl

This spring, USA Member Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant began an External Flooding Barrier Project to enhance flood protection strategy by installing permanent infrastructure. This infrastructure will decrease the time required to install temporary flood protection in the event of the design-basis probable maximum flood. The installation of a bin wall along the north side of...

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Prairie Island announces new plant manager

Author: Lisa Kuehl

Prairie Island named Chris Younie as the new plant manager effective April 21, 2014. Younie comes to Prairie Island from INPO, where he has been a Plant Evaluation Team Leader. Prior to joining INPO in 2007, Younie worked at Callaway in Fulton, Mo., where he was manager of Business Operation and Operations. He also spent...

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USA Fleet spring outage overview

Author: Buddy Eller

Several USA plants have completed or have refueling and maintenance outages ongoing this spring. Below is a brief recap of USA outage activities. Fermi’s Outage Fermi 2 completed its 16th refueling outage early this year. The plant completed more than 15,000 separate activities during the outage, including inspections and equipment maintenance activities. In addition to...

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