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,...

Read More

Utilities Service Alliance (USA) member Team Susquehanna delivered its Unit 2 18th Refueling and Inspection Outage (U2 18RIO) safely, with no significant events, under dose, under budget and close to outage plan, coming in at 36.6 days, zero OSHA recordable injuries, zero site clock resets, and under personal contamination events and outage dose goal. “I...

Read More

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson was packed with Utilities Service Alliance (USA) supply chain management professionals and nuclear suppliers who gathered for the 14th Annual USA SCM Winter Conference Jan. 24-27. Conference participants came to the desert southwest from across the country to learn the latest in delivering sustainable, positive change to the organizations...

Read More

The USA board of directors elected Timothy S. (Tim) Rausch to a second term as its Chairman at its July 12 meeting in Sandy, Utah. Tim, who is also Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer for Talen Energy, is responsible for the operation of its Susquehanna nuclear power station in northeastern Pennsylvania. His new...

Read More