David Fitzgerald: Outage work at Callaway-Challenges, planning, and lessons learned

摘要

A fall refueling outage will include replacement of steam generators and turbine rotors and will bring as many as 2000 workers on site. AmerenUE's Callaway nu-clear power plant is preparing for a fall refueling outage that will include replacement of steam generators and turbine rotors. About 2000 workers will be on site for the outage, more than half of them contract labor. David Fitzgerald is manager of outages and work management at Callaway, named to that position last October. Prior to that he was a plant manager at two different AmerenUE hydro power stations, and he has also worked as a strategic outage manager for AmerenUE's fossil-fuel and hydro plants, which total almost 7000 MWe. He did, though, start his AmerenUE career at Callaway, where he acquired more than 18 years of experience in various positions, including general supervisor of outage scheduling, outage maintenance manager, manager of operations support, and superintendent of security. He is also licensed as a senior reactor operator and spent 14 years in Callaway's operations department.