How many reactor engineers per unit at your site? What experience level?
2 Unit site. 1 Supervisor (Primary/Secondary Systems Supervisor)-not qualified; 3 REs. Two fully qualified, one with five years on station as RE (5 years non-RE experience), one with two years of experience; third was fully qualified at previous station, is mostly qualified now and has 4 years of experience total.
What reactivity management-related duties are there? For example: plan preparation, control room attendance during maneuvers, run/attend station RM oversight committee.
Prepare reactivity plans for planned ramps >5%, support for ramps >10%; we will also provide any plans or assistance as requested if available; support RMRT site and fleet-grading CRs, assisting with documentation (these duties have been transitioning more to ops over the last few years; we used to run the meetings from planning to execution). {In addition to the normal tasks involving PTs, standard ramp plans, and document reviews}
Other programs or responsibilities you would deem major? For example: SNM tracking/reporting, plant systems, computer administration
Manage several codes for the Plant computer (flux mapping, calorimetric, etc) plus qualified codes used in RFO surveillances and for manual calorimetric. As needed provide code reviews as needed. Code changes for the PCS are handled outside the group, but we are kept involved. Review all onload/offload handling plans. Inspect new fuel. Support incore/excore system issues and leakrate issues as needed (but don’t own the systems). In some cases RE will be the group that writes a code (some qualified, some not) to perform a certain task or function.
Adina LaFrance
Lead Reactor Engineer
Nuclear Analysis and Fuels, Surry Power Station
Dominion Generation
Phone: 757-365-2658; Internal: 8-798-2658
E-mail: Adina.K.LaFrance@dom.com
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 2:21 PM
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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