Press Release-IV-02-026, NRC Names John Kramer Senior Resident Inspector at Fort Calhoun Station

Press Release-IV-02-026: NRC Names John Kramer Senior Resident Inspector at Fort Calhoun Station

ML021510213
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Site:	Fort Calhoun
Issue date:	05/30/2002
From:	Office of Public Affairs Region IV
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Press Release-IV-02-026
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGION IV 611 Ryan Plaza Drive - Suite 400 Arlington TX 76011-8064 No. IV-02-026 May 30, 2002 CONTACT: Breck Henderson E-mail: opa4@nrc.gov Phone: 817-860-8128 Cellular: 817-917-1227 NRC NAMES JOHN KRAMER SENIOR RESIDENT INSPECTOR AT FORT CALHOUN STATION The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has named John Kramer Senior Resident Inspector at Fort Calhoun Station, a nuclear power plant near Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. He joins Leonard Willoughby, the resident inspector at the plant.

Mr. Kramer graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor of science degree in engineering in 1983. Following graduation he was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the nuclear-powered cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN 9) until 1989. He left the Navy in 1989 and worked at Florida Power and Light as a senior reactor operator at the Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant.

In 1992, Mr. Kramer joined the NRC at its former Region V office in Walnut Creek, Calif., as an operator license examiner. Prior to his assignment as senior resident inspector at Fort Calhoun, he has served as resident inspector at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, near Phoenix, Ariz., and at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, near San Clemente, Calif.

Mr. Kramer will reside in the Omaha area with his wife Gwendolyn and sons Blake and Derek.

Each U.S. commercial nuclear power plant has at least two NRC resident inspectors. They serve as the agencys eyes and ears at the facility, conducting regular inspections and monitoring significant work projects.