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| Workforce, safety and compliance have become central business issues as experienced personnel retire, labor markets tighten and operational standards continue to rise. This topic explores training, knowledge transfer, contractor oversight, culture, workforce planning and compliance execution across plants and projects. Reliable operations depend on people. So do safe outages, successful projects and the ability to sustain performance across an aging fleet.
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Workforce, Safety & Compliance Educational Opportunities
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These courses are included for all-access badge holders. You can pre-register for your preferred course; however, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Most p …
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Physical attacks on substations, drone incursions over generation facilities, ransomware targeting operational technology, supply chain compromise, and insider risk are no longer theoretical threat ve …
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Generation plants that have been repowered or operated across multiple technology eras accumulate a common problem: the information needed to plan, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain the facility exi …
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Steam boilers were designed for steady baseload operation. As grid conditions push thermal fleets toward more frequent starts, deeper turndowns and aggressive cycling, the operating envelope shifts we …
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Replacing analog safety systems with digital instrumentation and controls at a commercial nuclear reactor is a first-of-a-kind undertaking for most utilities. The engineering is complex, but the licen …
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Military installations operate under reliability requirements that most utilities and IPPs rarely face: uninterrupted power during grid outages, cyber events, and extreme weather, with no tolerance fo …
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In most North American utilities, diesel generation is backup. At Bahamas Power & Light, it is the baseload that keeps a nation lit. Operating a diesel-driven island grid means no neighboring system t …Chairperson
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As utility-scale BESS deployments accelerate, the gap between evolving fire codes and on-the-ground implementation remains a critical industry challenge. This session draws on submissions from the Fir …
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Power generation and data center construction projects are increasingly competing for the same pool of electricians, pipefitters, welders, millwrights, and commissioning personnel, often in the same g …
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An accelerating retirement wave in plant operations is removing institutional knowledge faster than conventional training programs can replace it. In high-consequence environments, including outage wo …
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The electric sector is entering a new cyber-physical risk era. Generation, transmission, distribution, substations, distributed energy resources, data centers, private generation, vendors, cloud platf …
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Community opposition is one of the most underestimated risks in utility-scale BESS development, with projects facing delays or cancellations not due to technical or regulatory failure, but due to erod …
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TVA operates more than 100 natural gas and fuel oil generators across 17 sites. Meeting NERC MOD-026 and MOD-027 compliance requirements on a fleet that size, using traditional on-site stage testing w …
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From Regional Silos to Integrated Asset Management: How Petrobras Transformed a Thermoelectric FleetManaging a portfolio of thermoelectric assets across multiple regions creates a familiar tension: local operating units develop strong execution capability but limited integration, and the inconsisten …
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Rapid load growth from data centers and industrial expansion is exposing the seams between transmission planning, distribution coordination, control-room operations and the analytics teams that sit be …Speakers
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Constellation and Microsoft's partnership extends beyond the Crane Clean Energy Center restart into how AI tools can support nuclear fleet operations. This session spotlights one active application, A …
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Most megaproject cost overruns and schedule failures originate not in construction but in front-end decisions made under incomplete information, scope that was not fully defined, delivery strategies t …
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Advanced reactor development, DOE-funded infrastructure projects and NRC-regulated work are expanding the universe of organizations encountering ASME NQA-1 requirements for the first time. For EPCs, c …Chairperson
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Advanced nuclear is moving from concept to hardware. BWXT Advanced Technologies began production of the Project Pele transportable reactor in July 2025, delivered TRISO fuel to Idaho National Laborato …
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Every major U.S. nuclear utility is now planning or executing large-scale digital instrumentation and control upgrades. Aging analog infrastructure, subsequent license renewals extending plant life to …Chairperson
Other Workforce, Safety & Compliance News
Blue Energy files first NRC application for Texas gas-to-nuclear project
Blue Energy has filed the first portion of its NRC construction permit application for a first-of-its-kind gas-to-nuclear power plant in Port of Victoria, Texas. The project would pair GE Vernova gas turbines with BWRX-300 small modular reactors in a phased approach designed to accelerate nuclear deployment.
September 24, 2026
