The Personnel Sharing Program is designed to provide many benefits for the participating plants.  The Borrowing Participants obtain experienced personnel at a reasonable and value-added cost, using other utility personnel results in a more experienced work force than those hired from commercial sources.  In most cases, this results in either less personnel required to complete...

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One definition for the saying "the devil is in the detail" is that plans or actions that seem sound must be carefully examined, because minor details can end up causing major, unforeseen problems.  When it comes to initial operations license training there are many, many details. In 2021 and 2022 the NRC and industry will...

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If you are old enough to remember baseball great Reggie Jackson, as I am, you might also recall that he liked to refer to himself as “Mr. October” based on his prolific performances in postseason. Another term used to refer to Jackson was “The Straw that Stirs the Drink” because he was the guy that...

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The Parts Quality Initiative (PQI) provided by Exelon PowerLabs (EPL) has been available to the industry for the past 16 years.  Development of the USA project plan is for each of the members to asses their parts risk and determine if they should proceed with identification and testing of critical parts to prevent parts quality...

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