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Offline Rennhack

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Exelon
« on: Sep 09, 2007, 12:08 »
Talk about this company here.  Don't forget to vote.

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Exelon
« Reply #1 on: Aug 04, 2009, 09:21 »
Hey guys im going to an Exelon plant this fall and im wondering what everyones perspective is on them, ive heard everything from them being satan(or close to it) and ive also heard they are the easiest plant to work at...

what are your thoughts and beliefs on the Exelon plants

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #2 on: Aug 04, 2009, 09:48 »
that depends which exelon site are you going to ? peach bottom, dresden TMI ????

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #3 on: Aug 04, 2009, 10:14 »
braidwood? .... i just go when they tell me to go :-P


looked up up and yea its braidwood

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #4 on: Aug 04, 2009, 10:19 »
never been there, just drive by there on my way to the training center when i in process for dresden, lasalle etc

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #5 on: Aug 04, 2009, 10:25 »
well how are your experiences at those places?

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #6 on: Aug 04, 2009, 11:55 »
I have worked at Peach Bottom, TMI, Limerick, LaSalle, Dresden and Clinton and they were all different. There is no valid cross-comparison for the contract technician. I was treated like a pariah at one plant and like part of the family at a couple of the others. The working conditions (for me, anyway) ranged from excellent to dismal. At one plant the house techs would not talk to you if you were a contractor and at one they were all giving me email addresses and telling me to keep in touch... and those plants were only a couple of hours apart.

Like the carney says -- "Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances."
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Re: Exelon
« Reply #7 on: Aug 20, 2009, 07:58 »
How is Oyster Creek for NEOs?

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #8 on: Aug 21, 2009, 08:06 »
Let me guess...except for the part about them being a few hours apart I'd say that TMI treated you like family and LaSalle treated you like a leper.

Only one of those plants was in my comparison but your instincts are pretty good. And to qualify, there were actually a few house techs at LaSalle that were very nice. I had the luck to work directly with one on the refuel floor that was pretty easy to get along with and actually communicated with me. The rest made a point of ignoring you. The techs at Clinton were awesome... friendly, helpful, appreciative of the work we did  -- in short, everything a road tech likes to find at his next plant.

TMI was one of my favorite outages because of the people I worked with and the job I got to do.  Once they found out I was a computer geek on top of the RP experience I had, I got assigned to work the control point where I spent most of the time in an office-like environment working with a lead tech (Vince) who appreciated that I could handle the computer tasks and take over the RP responsibilities when he needed a break (a combination he had not enjoyed before.) I promised to return for the next outage, but those plans were overcome by events (got a job as a Rad Engineer) and I didn't go back.
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Re: Exelon
« Reply #9 on: Aug 21, 2009, 11:02 »
Off topic perhaps but here is my top three (family & leper) list.  Disclaimer: it should be obvious to the casual observer that I have not been to some of these sites in quite some time and things may have changed a bit.

Family:

1. TMI (pre-Exelon only because I haven't been there since 13R)
2. Diablo Canyon
3. Tie between Trojan and Rancho Seco

Leper Colonies:

1. LaSalle
2. St. Lucie
3. tie between SONGS (modern day), DC Cook, & HB Robinson


I'd like to add that there is a official NukeWorker list of Best and Worst plants, that YOU NukeWorkers have made (Don't forget to vote) found here:

http://www.nukeworker.com/maps/polls.php

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #10 on: Aug 21, 2009, 09:36 »
Off topic perhaps but here is my top three (family & leper) list.  Disclaimer: it should be obvious to the casual observer that I have not been to some of these sites in quite some time and things may have changed a bit.

Family:

1. TMI (pre-Exelon only because I haven't been there since 13R)
2. Diablo Canyon
3. Tie between Trojan and Rancho Seco

Leper Colonies:

1. LaSalle
2. St. Lucie
3. tie between SONGS (modern day), DC Cook, & HB Robinson


I guess you are entitled to your opinion.

Have you worked at SONGS lately?  Lots of really good people there. 

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #11 on: Aug 21, 2009, 10:55 »
Have you worked at SONGS lately?  Lots of really good people there. 

It has a nice shiny high INPO rating too....


On-topic: What Exelon plants do people like?

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #12 on: Aug 21, 2009, 11:20 »
On-topic: What Exelon plants do people like?

Your Answer is just a click away...

http://www.nukeworker.com/maps/polls.php

I'll save you the click... But I shouldn't...

Facility Score Votes
Limerick 68 28
Three Mile Island 61 33
Clinton 58 31
Byron 50 28
Braidwood 45 32
Oyster Creek 38 30
Quad Cities 33 32
Peach Bottom 28 30
LaSalle 28 29
Dresden 21 62
Salem Poll seems to have been deleted. Bummer.
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Exelon Takeover
« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2011, 11:41 »
Has anybody been at a plant which was taken over by Exelon?  Seems to me Exelon is on the hunt and single unit plants should be wary.  Just curious if anybody had any growing pains, pro, cons, or general comments if they had to go through this.

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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2011, 11:54 »
Has anybody been at a plant which was taken over by Exelon?  Seems to me Exelon is on the hunt and single unit plants should be wary.  Just curious if anybody had any growing pains, pro, cons, or general comments if they had to go through this.

Well since we have a very recent posting about the topic of a Exelon buy/take-over of another player you might want to start "here".

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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #15 on: May 10, 2011, 08:41 »
I was at Oyster Creek.  The Exelon business model is a unique creature.
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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2011, 04:15 »
 Word on the street is Exelon to take over/ buy out Constellation Energy. Has anyone else heard about this??

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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #17 on: May 10, 2011, 04:42 »
Word on the street is Exelon to take over/ buy out Constellation Energy. Has anyone else heard about this??

You mean like this?

http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,27429.0.html

(You should search a bit first, before posting. It is less embarrassing.)
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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #18 on: Mar 14, 2012, 12:08 »
So the merger is final now. What can former Constellation employees expect in the near future? What about long term?

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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #19 on: Mar 14, 2012, 03:59 »
This may be somewhat off topic, but I have heard that Exelon is negotiating a contract to manage Fort Calhoun. I don't think they can buy it outright because Nebraska is a "public power" state. The same reason that Entergy manages Cooper but does not own it.

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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #20 on: Mar 15, 2012, 04:57 »
So the merger is final now. What can former Constellation employees expect in the near future? What about long term?

For management, 5 free OT minimum.  Just for starters but they told me about the five up front so I knew.
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« Reply #21 on: Mar 15, 2012, 06:24 »
So the merger is final now. What can former Constellation employees expect in the near future? What about long term?

Do not resist the Borg.
You will be assimilated.

I used to work for ComEd Quad Cities in the 90s.
I remember a PowerPoint presentation introducing Exelon, the number of jobs planned to be shed by department, an SRO Golden Handcuffs offer, and a resignation.
It happened very quickly.

Since then, I have done contract projects for them.

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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #22 on: Mar 15, 2012, 12:56 »
Yes Exelon is here at Fort Calhoun helping us recover from our regulatory issues.  They are not managing us in the way that Entergy is running Cooper.  Our plant manager is now an Exelon employee as well as several people on the recovery team.  OPPD is still managing Fort Calhoun. 

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Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #23 on: Mar 24, 2012, 05:57 »
Does anyone know what benefits, if any, Exelon may provide for military reservists when they are deployed? I am looking for benefits along the lines of do they continue medical insurance for family members, pay the difference in your pay when deployed, etc. Thanks.

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Re: Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #24 on: Mar 24, 2012, 09:59 »
Does anyone know what benefits, if any, Exelon may provide for military reservists when they are deployed? I am looking for benefits along the lines of do they continue medical insurance for family members, pay the difference in your pay when deployed, etc. Thanks. 

If you are an employee or a potential employee, this is a question for HR not an open forum.

If you are neither, it probably is not any of your business!
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Re: Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #25 on: Mar 24, 2012, 10:48 »
You should check out this other post that asks the same question, maybe that guy got a better answer.

http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,34558.0.html

What's that you say?  You mean THAT was you too, just an hour earlier.  Wow.  Do us a favor, and delete one of the posts, you really don't need to post the same question more than once.

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Re: Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #26 on: Mar 25, 2012, 02:51 »
This is not an inappropriate question to ask, especially when there are numerous employers out there that I can pursue employment with and I want to compare benefits. This is also not an inappropriate section to post this question, neither is the other post I created. They are both in relevant sub-topics and having the same post in two different topic areas will ensure my question is exposed to the largest amount of people with possible information. 

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Re: Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #27 on: Mar 25, 2012, 03:01 »
This is not an inappropriate question to ask, especially when there are numerous employers out there that I can pursue employment with and I want to compare benefits. This is also not an inappropriate section to post this question, neither is the other post I created. They are both in relevant sub-topics and having the same post in two different topic areas will ensure my question is exposed to the largest amount of people with possible information. 

Are you seriously that stupid as to argue with the OWNER of this website as to what is appropriate or not?

OldHP is correct. Not the place to ask this stuff. In fact many employers forbid discussing items like this. ASK EXELON!

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Re: Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #28 on: Mar 25, 2012, 07:52 »
Are you seriously that stupid as to argue with the OWNER of this website as to what is appropriate or not?

I'll just charge him double. (Crap, its FREE, doh!)

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Re: Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #29 on: Mar 26, 2012, 03:11 »
Jake there are federal laws in place considering your concerns. Do yourself a favor and ask Exelon HR or do a google search yourself.



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Re: Exelon Benefits for Deployed Military Reservists
« Reply #30 on: Mar 26, 2012, 09:42 »
I'll just charge him double. (Crap, its FREE, doh!)

In that case, charge him triple!
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Re: Exelon Takeover
« Reply #31 on: Aug 17, 2012, 12:15 »
Yes Exelon is here at Fort Calhoun helping us recover from our regulatory issues.  They are not managing us in the way that Entergy is running Cooper.  Our plant manager is now an Exelon employee as well as several people on the recovery team.  OPPD is still managing Fort Calhoun.  

IMO the writing was on the wall.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/566989ab6dad4c31a3910b30447cff88/NE--Nuclear-Safety-Nebraska

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120817/NEWS/708179925/1685#private-firm-to-run-fort-calhoun-nuclear-station
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« Reply #32 on: Mar 19, 2013, 09:13 »
I applied for a position with Exelon and wondered how long it typically takes to hear back from them. Also do they email you letting you know that you were not chosen to test and interview, or are you left to wonder?

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #33 on: Mar 20, 2013, 07:18 »
They do not reply as I have applied for at least ten other positions there and have never received any rejection emails.

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« Reply #34 on: Mar 20, 2013, 08:17 »
I applied for a position with Exelon and receive an interview about 6-8 weeks after the application. I did not receive an offer though until about 5 months after the interview.
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Re: Exelon
« Reply #35 on: May 04, 2015, 02:54 »
I'm interviewing for a supervisor rad protect position and wondered if somebody could give me some insight into how they treat their first line supervisors?

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #36 on: May 04, 2015, 03:45 »
It's nuclear. Long hours and a slave to the plant. A well paid slave of course!

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« Reply #37 on: May 04, 2015, 03:46 »
Let's just say this: don't buy a house until you've been there a couple years.

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« Reply #38 on: May 04, 2015, 05:36 »
So it sounds like they work you like a dog for two years then fire you. Yea....hard work is ok but constantly being worried about having a job isn't.

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« Reply #39 on: May 04, 2015, 05:56 »
If you work hard and plan correctly everything could be ok, but if you don't want to get stuck working 60 hours a week on average for long periods of time you might want to look for something else.  Some supervisors are really good and are in a good position to get most of it done in 40.  Depends on the plant, how much help you have, your own work habits and a slew of other things.  The problem is just like in the Navy, things can turn on a dime and your quality of life can go right in the $hitter.  You really are at the mercy of management if you hunker down and count on things being good/stable in a supervisor position.  I mean everything is a crap shoot but the odds are stacked more against you IMHO.  I would only take a supervisor position assuming things are semi-temporary and planning on a roller coaster ride of BS.

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« Reply #40 on: May 04, 2015, 06:47 »
It can be a great job and Exelon isn't any different than any other nuclear utility. If you are supervision they own you. It isn't only during outages. Extra training, INPO preps. One of your people screws up. Forced outages, emergent issues  and that magical duty week that if anything pops up you get to stay


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« Reply #41 on: May 04, 2015, 08:54 »
So it sounds like they work you like a dog for two years then fire you. Yea....hard work is ok but constantly being worried about having a job isn't.

Absolutely inaccurate.

To get fired from our site, you'd have to do something egregiously stupid, lie about it, and then you'd probably be shown the door.  Otherwise, the RP sups at Exelon xyz plant are all pretty happy individuals who have been in their current position for a while (and in their mid to late 40's).  Nothing like what you're hearing here.

You will get asked a lot of.  You may work some extra hours, but most of them will be compensated for - including the outage.  You will be very well compensated overall.  

You're always free to leave.

Lots of whining and negativity.  On this site and at work.  I don't get it.
« Last Edit: May 04, 2015, 08:55 by a|F »

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« Reply #42 on: May 04, 2015, 09:29 »
No whining here . I supervised and managed for longer than you have been alive.
On the other hand I believe in telling it like it is and i am giving an entirely accurate assessment

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« Reply #43 on: May 05, 2015, 02:08 »
I'm not saying don't buy a house because you will be fired.  I'm saying don't buy a house because you may want to quit.  They won't necessarily work you like a dog all the time.  It's just how things swing back and forth for supervisors.  They have to find a way to deal with all the BS and all the real work.  Techs just end up working more OT and getting paid T1/2 or DT, so it's not as bad for them.  Things might be good now, but it's just very possible the next RPM that comes in will mandate this and that and then another supervisor will quit and they won't hire another one for 8 more months and you are working 60s for the next year dealing with all the new RPMs demands and covering for the last guy that quit and dealing with the next supervisor that is wet behind the ears or is a slacker. Oh and an outage is coming up.  Like I said you've got to cater to somebody's whims and do the real work.  The work has to get done, and it is up to you to get it done.  Or maybe everything will be just peachy.  It is hard to get fired, but you may not love what is required of you.  Or you might love it, for now...

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #44 on: May 05, 2015, 09:55 »
I wasn't a supervisor but a Rad Engineer at an Exelon east plane.  I'll agree you do work at least 5 extra hours per week (free OT) specified in your contract.  Typically it was many more though.  I enjoyed it and would probably still be there if the cost of owning a home was prohibitive.
LM

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Re: Exelon
« Reply #45 on: May 05, 2015, 06:33 »
I happen to be one of the RP FLS's that quit (took another position with a different company actually).  I will not say which plant but I will tell you that it all depends on who you work for.  Where I was, it was miserable.  Long hours, no appreciation, constant stress, and poor leadership from above.  Whenever the department achieved something positive, it was because of the upper leadership in the department.  Whenever there was an issue, whether big or small, it was the FLS's fault and upper leadership had nothing to do with it.  Now this is different at different sites, I checked, however I am informing you of what it was like at my site.  Hours were long, with no OT, except for outages which was paid at ST anyways.  I did the math one time and based on the amount of time I spent at the plant without getting compensated for it, I was making about $32/hr which was far less than my salary.  My family life was getting extremely strained (I had 3 small kids at home) and got out the first chance I could to save my personal life while I was still young and had the chance.  The pay was good though as well as the bonuses.  To each his own, I guess and like I said, I am only speaking for the plant I was at.

 


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