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10 January 2007 -- Arizona Public Service Company (APS) announced the appointment of Randy Edington as senior vice president and chief nuclear officer. He will replace Jim Levine who announced his resignation in December. Edington will assume his new duties at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station on January 25. He will report to Jack Davis, Chief Executive Officer of APS.
Edington, 53, comes to APS from Entergy Corp. with more than 25 years of commercial nuclear power plant operational experience and an additional eight years nuclear Navy experience. He most recently served as site vice president and chief nuclear officer of Cooper Generating Station in Brownville, Neb. Previously, he was vice president of support for Entergy North, site vice president at Entergy's River Bend Nuclear Station, and site general manager at Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO). Edington previously was licensed as a reactor operator and senior reactor operator on the Combustion Engineering plant at ANO.
Edington comes to Palo Verde in a troubled time at the plant, with increasing scrutiny from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). NRC officials recently called safety lapses at the plant "particularly egregious" because they went undetected for so long. The Commission plans on providing more oversight at the facility after finding diesel backup generators inoperative and chemically fouled heat exchangers for the emergency spray ponds for all three reactors.
"Our objective is long-term sustainable top performance through rigorous emphasis on core management and operating fundamentals," said Edington. "I look forward to working with an organization that has had, and will again, achieve top industry performance."
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