How many reactor engineers per unit at your site?  What experience level?

North Anna has 2 Units (PWRs).  We currently have 3 REs. 

RE #1 – 6 years RE experience (with 6 months co-op)

RE#2 – 2 years RE experience, Safety Analysis experience, ex-Navy experience

RE#3 – 1.5 months experience, college graduate (with 7 months co-op)

1 Primary Systems Supervisor

We have another fully qualified ex-RE is in Systems Engineering that assists when needed.

What reactivity management-related duties are there?  For example: plan preparation, control room attendance during maneuvers, run/attend station RM oversight committee.
Perform daily reviews of Condition Reports for Reactivity Management items

Review Work Orders and Procedure changes related to reactivity management – Sometimes we have a weeks notice, sometime a couple of hours.

Reactivity Plan prep - Prepare reactivity plans for planned ramps >5% per procedure. 

Control room attendance – We are usually there for any ramp, no matter how small it is.  We have also been present in the control room for rod motion testing.

RM Oversight Committee – REs attend the RM Review Team meetings as part of the quorum and take minutes during the meeting.  We hold RM Condition Report grading meetings prior to the RM Review Team meetings.  We work with Outage and Planning on getting RM related work orders prioritized accordingly on a monthly basis.

Other programs or responsibilities you would deem major?  For example: SNM tracking/reporting, plant systems, computer administration

SNM Tracking is handled by the Corporate office, however we are involved in verifying core offload/reload shuffles.

Participate in new fuel receipt as qualified inspectors.

Monthly PTs such as flux maps, PRNI Calibration, Primary to Secondary Leakrate evaluation, Reactivity Anomaly

Charlene N. Chotalal,

Lead Reactor Engineer,

North Anna Power Station

bus. 540.894.2405

Dominion Tie-line - 8.794.2405

Fax:

From: pwrrm@retaqs.com [mailto:pwrrm@retaqs.com] On Behalf Of ddgoff@aep.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 2:21 PM
To: pwrrm@retaqs.com
Subject: [Pwrrm] RM and staffing

Hopefully, folks have time to answer a few staffing questions.  Thank you!

How many reactor engineers per unit at your site?  What experience level?

What reactivity management-related duties are there?  For example: plan preparation, control room attendance during maneuvers, run/attend station RM oversight committee.

Other programs or responsibilities you would deem major?  For example: SNM tracking/reporting, plant systems, computer administration.

David Goff
Reactor Engineer
Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant
269-465-5901 x1465

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