Michelle, Duke Energy has a Central Calibration Facility where all portable instrument repairs and calibrations are performed. Our staff from this facility also travel to the fleet sites to perform repairs and calibrations on fixed contamination monitors as well. Our technicians are not part of the accredited training program at the sites and we are a state licensed facility. We have always been fortunate that most of our technicians had an electronic or RP background and some have both. We cross train each other where needed. We have also utilized manufacturer provided training classes for repairs. For calibrations we have individual procedures for each model instrument and an individual qualification to that procedure. Our qualification process is similar to the accredited training program. Our QA program states that repairs are made per manufacture technical manuals to original manufacturer specifications. When necessary, we will consult with the manufacturers on how a repair should be performed. We also have electrical safety procedures that we follow.
I hope this helps even though we are not part of the sites accredited training program. Thanks, Bill Faulkenberry, NRRPT Supervising Scientist Duke Energy EnRad Labs 13339 Hagers Ferry Road Huntersville, NC 28078 Office: 980-875-6893 Cell: 803-627-4832 From: Powernet [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Williams, Michelle Lewis via Powernet Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2019 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Williams, Michelle Lewis <[email protected]> Subject: [Powernet] Qualifying Instrument technicians *** Exercise caution. This is an EXTERNAL email. DO NOT open attachments or click links from unknown senders or unexpected email. *** How do you qualify an individual to perform RP instrument calibrations? At Vogtle 1&2 we have separate qualification cards for each instrument that we have to qualify an individual on calibrations of the instrument. Additionally, we send them to a fundamentals electronic review class if they do not have a degree in electronics. Regards, Michelle Williams RP Superintendent Support Services Plant Vogtle Units 1&2 706.848.4236 tel 919.770.7138 cell [southern_nucl_h_rgb]
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