USA fleet member Columbia Generating Station produced more clean, nuclear energy for the Northwest power grid during 2014 than any other year in its 30-year history. Columbia sent nearly 9.5 million megawatt-hours of electricity to the grid, beating the previous calendar year generation record set in 2012 (9.3 million MWhrs). Columbia also set a generation...

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Like most days at a nuclear energy plant, if it passes without hoopla or fanfare or excitement, that's probably just fine with most people. Saturday, December 13 marked 30 years since USA fleet member Columbia Generating Station first began commercial operations. Since that December day in 1984, Columbia has generated more than 214 million net...

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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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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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