Talen Energy’s senior executive and nuclear professional Jeffrey M. Helsel, who currently serves the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) as a Performance Monitoring Leader (PML), has been selected by the Utilities Service Alliance (USA) Board of Directors to serve as its first Director Performance Sustainability. As a result of corporate governance changes announced just...

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Talen Energy Corporation was established as June 1, as one of the largest independent power producers in the United States with a diverse portfolio of generating assets located primarily in the country's two largest competitive electricity markets. Talen Energy was formed when the competitive power generation business of PPL Corporation was spun off and immediately...

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In early May, the FLEX Electrical Deployment Validation - part of the process to prove USA fleet member PPL Susquehanna could respond to an unimaginable disaster the size and scope of Fukushima - and all the work that has been done by a dedicated group of nuclear professionals in the past three years - became...

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The last time USA fleet member PPL Susquehanna changed out Unit 2’s Traversing In-Core Probe (TIP) was in 2002. In 2002, nobody was on Facebook, no one had an iPhone and no one watched a single YouTube video - because none of those things had been invented yet. But for all of our technological advances,...

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