During Cook’s recent refueling outage, a challenge arose with the plant’s circ water valves. Requesting support through a USA fleet jump up call, fellow USA members offered input and feedback. During the call, it was discussed how PSEG Nuclear’s Salem Generating Station had previous operating experience dealing with the same issue of taper pin failures...

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For the fifth straight time, USA fleet member Cook Plant’s Initial License Training Class received a 100% pass rate on the NRC exam -- something all of us can be extremely proud of. It was a point well-noted by Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Larry Weber at a dinner honoring the 16 newly-licensed...

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We use them every day at work, home and most locations that we visit. Most of us don’t give a second thought to opening or closing a door because it’s part of our daily routine. Doors are not as benign as they look, in fact each year thousands of door accidents take place. Some of...

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The Utilities Service Alliance (USA) Security Core Peer Team (CPT) is working together to improve performance on Force-on-Force exercises throughout our fleet. A Force-on-Force inspection is conducted over several days in two separate visits by an inspection team at the licensee's site. This inspection is on a three-year cycle. What is a Force-on-Force exercise? Below...

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