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Mcguire or V.C summer?

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gamecockdeez:
Thanks for the advice TN-MAN.  I do hope one day to have a chance to get licensed.  I think Summer would be good because, more than likely, I will get that chance. That is my goal, but I can see how shift work could get old, as I get older.  I guess i'll just have to see how it is, when I get there.  Thanks again.

Fermi2:

--- Quote from: TN-Man on Jan 20, 2009, 09:28 ---I was basing it on being at Summer for many years and seeing how it works there. When I left 4 years ago, all managers, which is the position above first line supervisor, had to have a SROC and they took their turns standing shift watch to maintain their certifications. So all department heads were SROs or SROCs. I even knew one coal plant manager that had been a SRO, but that was another story. I may have made the same mistake you made in assuming that all utilities are run the same and as you point out I was wrong. It has been many years since I was at Duke and things are probably very different. Another difference between SCE&G and TVA is that all operators at Summer are expected to be SRO some day. At TVA they can have career AOs. That is from my 1 1/2 years experience at Watts Bar, as a HP again. I was only trying to point out some things that gamecockdeez may not have thought about. I have no idea what you meant by "both types of utilities".

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Great post!!

Thanks

Mike

RRhoads:
This from my company news;
VC Summer Plant to Add Two More Plants
The Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSC)
has unanimously approved South Carolina Electric & Gas
Company’s (SCE&G) plans to build two new Westinghouse
AP1000s at its existing VC Summer site in the state. PSC
approval must be secured before any construction can start.
The South Carolina PSC ruling was made in the wake of
a three-week public hearing held in December 2008, and
determines that the proposal to build the plant is “prudent,”
as well as allowing the company to recover some of the
financing costs while the plant is under construction rather
than having to wait until it is in operation.
Indeed, according to the PSC directive, the new units will be
sorely needed. “The company’s [SCE&G’s] established reserve
margin target is 12% to 18% of forecasted peak demand,
and … forecast shows that the company’s reserve margin
will decline to 2% by 2016 and -3.9% by 2019, even in the
face of the current economic downturn,” it said.
SCE&G president and COO Kevin Marsh greeted the PSC
ruling as a key milestone for the project, and noted that
being able to pay financing costs while the plant is under
construction should lower the overall cost of building the
new units by about $1 billion, saving customers an estimated
$4 billion in electricity rates over the plant’s lifetime.
The new units will be jointly owned by Scana subsidiary
SCE&G and Santee Cooper, and operated by SCE&G, and
will join the existing 966 MWe unit at the site. Construction
will not be able to begin until the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) grants a combined construction and
operating licence (COL), which SCE&G estimates could be
issued in 2011. The company plans to bring the first of the
new units online in 2016, with the second in 2019.

NukeLDO:
Good news for a change.  Now we have to wait and see how the COL process plays out.

Ops Nub:
As a qualifying AO at VC Summer I will tell you that there are quite a few 'career' AO's.  Getting through RO class is getting tougher and tougher to get through as well, which has a lot of AO's nervous about taking the plunge. When you sign your paperwork to get hired they make you sign a memo that says that you will pursue an RO license when asked, but it hasn't been enforced 'yet'.

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