North American Young Generation in Nuclear

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North American Young Generation in
Nuclear Professional Development Workshop May
15-16, 2005 The Fairmont Washington, D.C.
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Craig Minarich, Hope Creek ERT PSEG Nuclear
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• Overview of our Chapter
• Membership
• Organizational Structure
• Main Activities
• Drawing Contest
• Career Fairs/ Career Days
• Science Fairs
• Monthly Speakers
• Positives
• Membership in Affinity Council
• Challenges

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• Strengths

• Strong membership base at single location
• Executive and Management Sponsorship
• Corporate Funding
• Growing recognition on site

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• Challenges of our Chapter

• Outages, Outages and longer Outages
• Reorganizationagain!!
• The MERGER

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• Outages, Outages and longer Outages
• ISSUE
• 3 unit site with 18 month cycles outage every
  6 months
• Fall 2004 outage last over 90 days
• Everything stops, shift work
• Working towards a SOLUTION
• Informal meetings during outage months

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• Reorganizationagain!!
• ISSUE
• A majority of our members hired since 2002
• Multiple reorgs since 2001
• Engineering population is hardest hit
• Constant change upsets availability
• SOLUTION
• Merge with Exelon

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• The MERGER
• ISSUE
• Uncertainty of everyones future
• Exelons retention rate
• SOLUTION
• Bring benefit of NA-YGN chapter to Exelon
• Discussions with Exelon management
• Network, Network, Network
• Career workshop offered on site

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• Our Future
• Develop relationship with Exelon peers
• Continue with 3rd year of Outreach
• Support Development of Rotational Program
• Develop a Mentoring Program