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July-August 2012, Volume 30 No. 4
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On The Cover
The RPS/ESPS upgrades were
implemented on unit 1 during the
plant’s spring 2011 refueling outage,
making Oconee the first plant in the
nation to move the systems from
analog to digital. Units 2 and 3 will
receive the upgrades during 2012
and 2013. See
for a profile.
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