| Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials
in King of Prussia, Pa., have selected Christopher Welch as the new resident
inspector at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in Plymouth, Mass. He joins Senior
Resident Inspector William Raymond at the site.
Russ Arrighi, who had been an inspector at Pilgrim since 1997, was recently
reassigned to a position in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at NRC
Headquarters in Rockville, Md.
Welch joined the NRC’s Region I office in 1997, as a reactor engineer.
Most recently, he was a resident inspector at the Robert E. Ginna nuclear
plant near Rochester, N.Y. Prior to joining the NRC, he worked as an assistant
chief test engineer at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, N.H. Welch
earned a Bachelor of Science degree in marine engineering from the Massachusetts
Maritime Academy. Welch, his wife and three children live in Sandwich.
Every commercial nuclear power plant in the U.S. has at least two NRC resident
inspectors. They have an office where they work at the facility, conducting
regular inspections and monitoring significant work projects.
The Pilgrim resident inspectors can be reached at 508/747-0565.
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