VQK.Communications -- Nuclear and Technical Communications

What's in it
for you?
Someone who can explain nuclear fuel to a mechanic one day and circuit breakers to a chemist the next can tackle almost any subject.

In the nuclear or electric utility industry?
Work with someone who understands your challenges.

Examples
Big Rock Point --
Going Out in Style
A look at the last operating day of a nuclear plant

The Freeing
of Alpha 7
Workers at Palo Verde find creative solutions to remove a damaged fuel bundle while under intense media scrutiny

Superconductivity
Interview with co-discovers of higher-temperature superconductors

Metaphorically speaking, I've spent more than a decade at the corner of Control Rod Drive and Radwaste Way (The sign's literal location is Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant.) As a writer and editor of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations' Nuclear Professional magazine, I visited more than 25 nuclear power plants in the United States and Canada, writing on subjects ranging from preventing corrosion to use of higher-energy nuclear fuels. Stops in between have included employee safety, circuit breakers, and preventive and predictive maintenance.

Prior to my work on the Nuclear Professional, read by more than 70,000 persons in the nuclear power industry, I also spent a much of my seven years at Georgia Power Company explaining technical subjects to all Georgia Power employees. My work, including an employee contest designed to educate employees about nuclear power, helped introduce Plant Vogtle to employees when the nuclear plant came on line in 1987.

I've also been involved in emergency communications, both at Georgia Power and INPO. At Georgia Power, I helped draft the initial communications plan for Plant Vogtle, as well as serving on the emergency communications team for seven years.