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Utility,
Industry &
Corporation
Utility
Site VP
Exelon Generation
announced that
Rick Libra has been named site vice
president at Limerick Generating Station.
Libra has more than 30 years of U.S.
nuclear industry experience. The site vice
president leads a team of approximately
800 highly skilled employees and
manages all aspects of plant operations.
Libra replaces Tom Dougherty, who was
recently named senior vice president,
Mid-Atlantic operations, for Exelon
Generation.
Before becoming Limerick site
vice president, Libra served as Three
Mile Island’s site vice president as well
as plant manager. Libra joined Exelon
Generation in 2007 as director, corporate
design engineering. He served in various
management positions for DTE Energy at
the Fermi Generating Station in Michigan
before joining Exelon.
Libra has a master’s degree
in engineering management from
Washington State University.
Contact: Dana Melia, Exelon
Generation, telephone: (610) 718-3025.
Industry
ATOMEXPO 2015
The VII International Forum
ATOMEXPO 2015 held in Moscow
on June 1-3, 2015, outlined the main
directions of the world nuclear industry
development.
Over 4200 people took part in the
Forum. More than 2,200 participants
from 47 foreign countries took part in the
business program, which is one and a half
times more than a year ago. The events of
the Forum included 16 round tables and
meetings devoted to nuclear energy. Over
600 delegates participated in the plenary
session “Nuclear Energy as an Impulse
for Socio-Economic Development”.
During the Forum, heads of the
largest Russian and foreign nuclear
industry organizations talked about the
advantages of nuclear energy, its influence
on social and economic development
of the countries and possible problems
connected with abandonment of nuclear
sources.
The Forum saw the signing of more
than 10 documents fostering Russia’s
international cooperation.
A specialized exhibition was
held at the site of ATOMEXPO 2015.
The exhibition was attended by 104
companies, including 29 foreign ones,
which presented high technologies and
products for the nuclear power industry
and related industries.
The next ATOMEXPO Forum will
take part in Moscow, in Gostiny Dvor, on
June 6–8, 2016.
Contact: Vlad Bochkov,
Rusatom
Long-term Plan
The
World Association of Nuclear
Operators
(WANO) has published
Compass
, its long term plan for the period
2015-2019. The new plan is intended
to guide the organisation through the
next five years in a manner that supports
WANO’s existing activities, while paving
the way for the organisation to become
more effective in key areas such as new
build and end of life, life-extensions and
decommissioning of plants.
WANO’s work since 2011 has been
dominated by activities and projects that
were generated out of the organisation’s
Post-Fukushima Commission (PFC),
which was set up in 2011 following the
accident at Fukushima Daiichi. The
deadline for the completion of the PFC
projects is the 2015 Biennial General
Meeting of the organisation’s members in
Toronto in October, 2015.
Compass
is formed of four focus
areas, which each outline the areas of
work to which WANO will direct its
attention and resources over the next five
years. The focus areas are:
1. Continue to support and set the
standards of high performance of the
world’s existing nuclear fleet.
2. Build and maintain a highly-trained,
professional workforce withinWANO.
3. Forge a stronger WANO through
more consistent, credible products
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