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Typical head count for NPP in the US
Mitch257:
That's my question - approximately how many people work at "the average" single-unit site here in the US? I think it's around 1000 people but can't find a reference. I did see that Palo Verde has about 2000 total for 5 plants (which sounds low to me) - although I know they can share support services like QA, RadCon, Security, etc.
Working at Fort St. Vrain, Duane Arnold, and contract work at other plants, it seemed to me that 1000 people is about the right order of magnitude anyway.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Imaginos:
Palo Verde Units 4 and 5 were cancelled in the 70's... :)
Mitch257:
Well, D'oh! - 2000 people for 3 plants then - makes more sense (I only did HTGR and BWR so obviously know diddly about PWR sites!)
HydroDave63:
An interesting trend is that the INPO 1 rated sites with lowest O&M costs, shorter outage length and high morale tend to have a lower person/MW ratio than the low rated, high cost, recurring outage-from-hell plants. Is it a function of "too many cooks spoil the soup", or that ineffective organizations staff up to throw more bodies at flawed "work processes"?
Perhaps the answer can be found in ... an inter-departmental staff meeting to review the SAP report printed in Gantt chart format, listing the interdependencies between the cost centers decrementing the resource available to .....zzzzzzzzzzzz........ ;)
What Would Rickover Do ? WWRD
Rennhack:
--- Quote from: rjc2112 on Sep 26, 2006, 08:25 ---Palo Verde Units 4 and 5 were cancelled in the 70's... :)
--- End quote ---
Yep, 1979.
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