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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The Pandemic created a substantial impact to our training efforts including one alliance member having an initial license exam delayed three months due to NRC travel restrictions and four alliance members having to reschedule INPO Accreditation Team Visits (ATVs).  In addition, many alliance members had to temporarily suspend or reschedule training as part of utility...

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This past week, notification was received from the Department of Energy that USA’s “Advanced Remote Monitoring Project,” has been approved for full-scale implementation. This multi-million-dollar grant award was funded through the Office of Nuclear Energy’s Advanced Reactor Development Projects pathway, which gives funds for concepts and ideas that could improve the capabilities and commercialization potential...

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In 2019, the USA BOD undertook two projects.  The first project was to assess and improve Plant Status Control at the plants.  The initiative was led by John Tripoli of Susquehanna.  The second project, to validate that the issues discussed in IER 17-9 “Weaknesses in Maintenance Technical Fundamental Skills Adversely Affecting Plant Operations” were correctly...

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The 2020 USA Winter Conference kicked off Monday afternoon, January 27, with attendees and guests enjoying our traditional golf outing. Tuesday brought meetings of the Supply Chain, Procurement Engineering, Advance Remote Monitoring and Site Representative teams, as well as 16 “value-concept” presentations by our Supplier-Partners designed to provide a road map of value opportunities for...

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In November of last year, we provided an update on possible Projects for 2020 with a promise to update all of you after the Board of Directors (BOD) made their final decisions.  This update is intended to share with all of you the Projects selected for 2020.  The following Projects were approved by the USA...

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