The Utilities Service Alliance (USA) provided a week of outage training to Energy Northwest employees, the first site-specific outage management training conducted by USA’s outage team. Dick Ehr, Energy Northwest outage manager, said the outage managers from Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, Callaway, and a retired Institute of Nuclear Power Operations outage management evaluator worked with...

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The Utilities Service Alliance (USA) Maintenance Core Peer Team’s role is to improve performance, promote cost reduction, and influence the industry in the maintenance function within the USA fleet through the identification of areas for improvement and initiation of appropriate resolution fleet-wide or at individual fleet member facilities. On Jan. 24, seven members of the...

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At the Utilities Service Alliance (USA) Board of Directors (BOD) Meeting held November 10, 2011 in Atlanta, the Directors approved a policy that would make USA team participation expectations part of an individual’s job and documented in performance reviews and incentive plans. Previously, team participation was considered by many team members to be an “extracurricular...

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Our personnel sharing agreement with the various USA and STARS nuclear plants provided much benefit in Refuel 18. Shared employees assisted in several departments and we greatly value having their knowledge, expertise and support. Shared employees and their home plants are: Operations: Terry Romig, Wolf Creek, Fred Scadin, Fermi, Mark Cimadon, Fermi, Clifton Bowen, Fermi,...

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Susquehanna Team members voluntarily took turns helping one community north of the plant clean up homes and businesses ravaged by the recent flooding. From Tuesday, Sept. 14 until Saturday, Sept 24, teams of Susquehanna employees joined the clean-up efforts in Shickshinny, Pa. Each day, a group of plant volunteers headed out, with approval of their...

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