USA fleet member Xcel Energy’s Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant recently ramped up power on its Unit 2 following the completion of a refueling outage which was host to major equipment upgrades and Fukushima compliance projects. Taking center stage were capital projects to replace the main generator and step-up transformer – the lion’s share of...

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USA fleet member Prairie Island recently completed the construction of its FLEX Beyond Design Basis Building that houses the FLEX response equipment. The building’s robust design is due to withstand a missile generated from a design basis tornado. It also meets the site’s license design basis (USAR) for extreme high wind, airborne tornado missiles and...

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Monticello’s Kevin Jepson has been named as the USA Site Representative/Corporate Functional Area Manager (CFAM) for Chemistry. “This is an opportunity to go back to my roots, and my passion for Chemistry,” Jepson said. “I spent over a decade in the Chemistry department at Monticello.” During those years, hydrogen water injection and zinc injection were...

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Prairie Island’s Richard Adams has been named as the USA Site Representative/Corporate Functional Area Manager (CFAM) for Radiation Protection. “I am very excited to bring my background to the new position of USA CFAM where I expect I’ll be able to foster team work between the RP programs at each of the sites,” said Adams...

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Senior executive leaders from the Shikoku Electric Power Co, Inc. met with leaders from USA fleet member Xcel Energy’s Nuclear Department and the Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant to foster a technical exchange relationship, which has been more than 24 years in the making. Shikoku Electric owns the Ikata Nuclear plant, located in Ikata, Japan,...

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