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USA Security Team Reminds Everyone to be Vigilant

Author: Digital Lagoon

April 17, 2013

We are all aware of the tragic events that occurred at the Boston Marathon. Our hearts go out to the people of Boston and those impacted. As is always the case in the nuclear industry, we try to learn from any situation and look for ways to improve our processes and prevent similar occurrences. Nuclear...

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Spring Refueling Outages Underway

Author: Joe Delmar

April 16, 2013

Spring means more than April showers and May flowers for the nuclear industry. For the members of the Utilities Service Alliance (USA), it means spring refueling outage season. This spring, six USA members have spring refueling outages with many already underway. Wolf Creek started their refueling outage in February with Monticello and Cook Unit 1...

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Behavior Initiative driving USA Performance

Author: Joe Delmar

April 12, 2013

Through the first quarter of 2013, the Utilities Service Alliance (USA) performance has continued to improve thanks to the fleet’s behavior initiative. The two tiered initiative has improved engagement amongst members and led to a better recognition of risk to help drive performance towards excellence. “Across USA, the core peer teams (CPTs) have really stepped...

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USA Sites Work Together to Improve Force-on-Force Exercises

Author: Dave Lefor

April 11, 2013

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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Member News: PPL Susquehanna Welcomes Jon Franke, Site Vice President

Author: Chip Palazzo

April 9, 2013

PPL Susquehanna recently appointed an industry veteran with nearly 30 years of military and commercial nuclear power experience as its new site vice president for the Susquehanna nuclear power station. Jon A. Franke joins PPL on Tuesday, April 9, 2013, from the Crystal River nuclear plant in Florida, where he served as site vice president...

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Monticello Gains Valuable Expertise through USA Connection

Author: Patrick L. Thompson

March 26, 2013

The Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant sends a big salute to the Utilities Service Alliance (USA) connection through which Fermi 2 ALARA engineering technician Tony Pezzino is spending 45 days assisting in RFO26. Pezzino, who has benchmarked and/or worked at 15 utilities as part of his Fermi career, assisted Monticello with oversight of a Torus diving...

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