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Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation

The Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation is a jointly owned corporation formed by the owners of Kansas City Power & Light, Kansas Gas & Electric (a Westar Energy Company), and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative (KEPCo). Wolf Creek Generating Station is one of KCP&L's principal generating units representing about 14 percent of its accredited generating capacity.

Successes at Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station: In the Dec. 10, 2009, issue of Wolf Tracks, the newsletter published by Wolf Creek Nuclear Operation Corporation, the organization noted a number of 2009 successes that deserve recognition and celebration:
  • Wolf Creek’s Emergency Response Organization executed its biennial Evaluation Exercise. Together with the state and county, Wolf Creek demonstrated to neighbors, families and friends that it is prepared to protect their health and safety in the unlikely event of an emergency at Wolf Creek.
  • The Security force completed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-evaluated Force-on-Force drill, in which the agency was complimentary to Wolf Creek personnel, including Wolf Creek’s willingness to embrace the NRC’s feedback during the week-long exercise.
  • Wolf Creek set a record for hours worked without a lost-time accident: 11,026,657 (more than five years). In addition, Wolf Creek continues its improving trend for recordable injuries.
  • Wolf Creek implemented the NRC’s new fatigue rule, requiring not only procedure and program changes but also a new software program and site work schedule.
  • Wolf Creek invested a tremendous amount of time and resources to improve its outage performance. The plant improvements in several areas, including radiological and personnel safety; work management; and supplemental worker performance. Plant officials expect to reap even greater benefits of the outage improvement initiatives in future outages.
  • The plant installed a first-of-a-kind digital instrumentation and control system for its safety-related main steam and feedwater isolation system. Wolf Creek is the first nuclear power plant in the industry to receive the NRC’s approval to install a digital controls platform for use in a reactor protection system/engineered safety feature actuation system application.

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