Case Study: Prairie Island
On Dec. 1 the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) informed senior Xcel Energy leadership that the Prairie Island Plant received a “3” rating due to continued performance deficiencies and was placed on Policy Note 14 (PN-14) structured recovery plan thus requiring that Prairie Island has 90-days to communicate a plan for assessing performance and to make recommendations to improve site leadership and alignment to performance improvement. A recovery review team was put in place with responsibility to access current performance deficiencies and to implement a recovery strategy plan. Additionally, an over sight recover team consisting of Scott Sharp, Gary Lakey, Valorie Vasquez, Ann Woodley, Jake Davisson and Gary Minlschmidt was created