High radiation levels on shipment prompt changes by Xcel Energy - 0 views
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Energy Net on 21 Feb 09Xcel Energy is changing its procedures and its employee training to avoid a repeat of an October incident in which a piece of equipment shipped from Minnesota to Pennsylvania was found to have radiation levels above federal limits, Scott Northard, the plant manager for Xcel's Prairie Island nuclear station, said Wednesday. In a February 10 letter and accompanying inspection report released Tuesday, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a preliminary "yellow" finding to Xcel for the incident. Yellow, the second-highest of the four levels in NRC's scale, indicates "substantial safety significance."