The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant hosted the Nuclear Energy Tribal Work Group (NETWG) for a plant tour and presentation March 31 in conjunction with a meeting held between the group and the U.S. Department of Energy. Members of NETWG received a presentation on the generation of nuclear power, a view of the Independent Spent...

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Xcel Energy’s Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Tim O’Connor rolled out a strategic vision and business strategy for their nuclear plants: Monticello and Prairie Island. The vision centers on ensuring nuclear as a part of Xcel Energy’s generation portfolio in the long term by becoming industry leaders in strategic business areas, reducing overall...

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The USA Performance Improvement Core Peer Team has taken actions to embrace the INPO initiative to address cumulative impacts in the Corrective Action Program (CAP). Results of the short term actions to improve CAP effectiveness and efficiency include backlog reduction, behavioral changes and process changes are being noticed across the USA fleet. CAP backlog reductions...

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USA fleet’s Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant Unit 1 exceeded its previous record breaker-to-breaker run when it began its 29th refueling outage on October 8. The unit had been running for 644 consecutive days since January 2, 2013, the longest run ever of both units at Prairie Island. “An outage-to-outage run like this places us among...

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