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Chip Palazzo

Pennsylvania’s Nuclear Energy Caucus issues report, hosts rally, welcomes Susquehanna Station

Author: Chip Palazzo

February 14, 2019

Pennsylvania’s Nuclear Energy Caucus (NEC) hosted a rally recently in Middletown, Pa., welcoming more than 100 legislators, management and unions representing nuclear industry and building trades to show solidarity behind the legislators’ Bicameral Nuclear Energy Caucus Report.  The report, a culmination of work and study completed by the Caucus in 2017 and 2018 was widely...

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Susquehanna welcomes USA’s recommendation of Syntempo: Helps to deliver Outage safely, on-time and under budget

Author: Chip Palazzo

June 14, 2018

Historically, outages at Utilities Service Alliance (USA) member Talen Energy’s Susquehanna Station have been done safely, however, they have traditionally exceeded 40 days in duration. This, in comparison to world class nuclear sites of comparable size/design whose outages have traditionally targeted 30 days. Previous outages at Susquehanna were negatively influenced by: • a lack of focus and...

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SSES receives NRC’s Annual Assessment Letter: Station in highest performance category of Reactor Oversight Process

Author: Chip Palazzo

March 8, 2018

Susquehanna Station’s Chief Nuclear Officer Tim Rausch received the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Annual Assessment Letter for Units 1 and 2 Wednesday, Feb. 28. The NRC deems the performance of Susquehanna Units 1 and 2 during the most recent quarter to be within the Licensee Response Column, the highest performance category of the NRC’s...

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Annual Contaminated Injury Drill a success for community: USA Member Susquehanna coordinates six offsite agencies

Author: Chip Palazzo

July 7, 2017

USA Member Susquehanna Station conducted its annual Contaminated Injury Drill successfully, safely and event-free at the end of June in accordance with Emergency Planning procedures. Six offsite agencies participated in this drill, which included ‘patient’ movement from the site to ambulances—including Team Susquehanna member Rosie Gerlach who served as the injured party and was flown...

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Feedwater Heater (FWH) Replacement Project: Learnings from 2016 keeps workers safe, improves overall project performance

Author: Chip Palazzo

April 21, 2017

One of the most challenging projects during Utilities Service Alliance (USA) member Susquehanna Station’s Unit 2 18th Refueling and Inspection Outage (U2 18RIO) has been to remove and replace three Feedwater Heaters on Unit 2. And because the station learned lessons from last year’s project FWH Replacement Project during the Unit 1 outage in 2016,...

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