A group of Mississippi River stakeholders couldn’t agree more with Mark Twain’s conclusions. USA fleet member Xcel Energy hosted 35 public and private power generators, federal-state-regional regulatory officials, American Indian community and environmental entities at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Tuesday, March 24, as part of the Mississippi River System-wide Low-Flow Management Plan (above St....

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Seth Borowski, a member of the Local 2 Bricklayers and Allied Craft workers in Detroit, works on one of Fermi 2’s two FLEX buildings. Fermi 2, the entire Utilities Service Alliance fleet and the commercial nuclear industry, is in the process of implementing new standards to help plants respond to beyond-design basis events. The initiative,...

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The USA Cyber Security Project Team met in Richland, Washington in early April to continue their work on implementing the requirements of Nuclear Energy Institute 08-09, Revision 6, Cyber Security Plan for Nuclear Power Reactors. The team covered many topics during the meeting. The topics included: Cyber Security Event Notification, Regulation Guide 5.83. 2015 USA...

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The last time USA fleet member PPL Susquehanna changed out Unit 2’s Traversing In-Core Probe (TIP) was in 2002. In 2002, nobody was on Facebook, no one had an iPhone and no one watched a single YouTube video - because none of those things had been invented yet. But for all of our technological advances,...

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Being plugged into the activities and decision making at the Institute of Nuclear Operations is important for any plant or fleet. For training within the Utilities Service Alliance, consider Jim Davis your conduit. Davis, training manager at USA fleet member Fermi 2, is the newest member of the Council of the National Academy for Training...

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