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Most SeaState clients are in the electric energy business.  Many of them operate nuclear power plants.  When a problem occurs at one of these stations it is critical to Fix-It-Once®   

Look closely at nuclear power's U.S. performance record in the table below.

Real men and women - not some elite cadre of physicists -  run these facilities.  People like you and me are responsible for every improvement.  They work like people at most other industrial or technical complexes.  Operators monitor processes and make adjustments.  Technicians perform preventive and corrective maintenance.  Engineers modify and improve facilities.  Supervisors plan, lead, coach, and correct.  Managers assess risks and make financial, schedule, training, and personnel decisions.  

Here's what nuclear power people have accomplished in two and a half decades of self improvement:

1980 Performance

2004 Performance

Industrial Accidents

2.10 per 200,000 worker hours

0.25 per 200,000 worker hours

Worker Radiation Exposure (person-rem)

  417 (PWR)   859 (BWR)

  61 (PWR)  142 (BWR)

Unplanned Automatic Shutdowns (median)

7.3 per unit

Zero per unit

Unit Capability Factor (availability - median)

62.7%

91.2%
Unplanned Capability Loss 11.6% 2.0%

Source: Nuclear Energy Institute/World Association of Nuclear Operators

These people do their jobs very well.  Their results don't come from luck or Federal regulation.  They succeed by solving problems aggressively and by learning from experience.  They are role models to follow. They use the principles embodied in Fix-It-Once®.  

SeaState Group, Inc. Client Listing

Organization

Root Cause Analysis

Training

Consulting

Salem

X

X

X

Hope Creek

X

X

X

Indian Point

X

X

X

Con Edison (Steam Business Unit)

X

X

X
Wolf Creek X X X

Beaver Valley

 

X

X

Calvert Cliffs

 

X

X

Palo Verde

 

X

X

Susquehanna

X

 

X
Cooper X   X
TVA Watts Bar x   x
Callaway X    

Yucca Mountain Project*

X

 

 

Nine Mile Point

X

 

 

Maine Yankee*

X

 

 

Fluor Daniel Hanford

 

X

 
Palisades   X  
TVA Browns Ferry     x
Bechtel Nevada     X
Point Beach     X

Limerick

 

 

X

Rodel, Inc.

 

 

X

Law Firm*

 

 

X

* Subcontracted services

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