John Kropog

Background

About John Kropog

Retired from Entergy, Waterford 3 on September 17, 2010 after 23 years of service. Since retirement I have held several positions with AREVA, WESTINGHOUSE, MASTER-LEE ENERGY SERVICES, GUIDANT and EMERALD COAST SERVICES. These positions were in the areas of: Reactor Services, Dry Fuel Storage, Responsible Oversight and Project Management. I was with the ANO Stator Recovery Group at ANO Unit 1 in an Oversight Role. After the new Stator was set into place on Tuesday 07/09/2013 I was reassigned to the ANO Unit 1 Reactor Services Group as a Shift Supervisor for Reactor reassembly. Upon leaving ANO I joined the Reactor Services Group at Fort Calhoun as a consultant from 08/04/13 until 08/13/2013. I returned to the Waterford Dry Fuel Team on 08/14/2013 as a Shift Supervisor and Fuel Handling Supervisor. On April 7, 2014 I joined the Waterford Refuel Team as a Floor Coordinator and Fuel Handling Supervisor for RF-19. Immediately after RF-19 I re-joined the Projects Group to continue work on the Refuel Machine Upgrade Project as a Senior Field Engineer. On July 21, 2014 while still under contract at Waterford, I began a temporary assignment at Pilgrim Station to assist in implementing their Dry Fuel Storage Program. My area of responsibility was in project oversight as well as procedure development. I returned to Waterford 3 on February 11 to resume work on the Refuel Machine Upgrade Project as the Project Planner, Field Coordinator and Oversight. The Refuel Machine Upgrade Project was a grand success. Project teamwork was the key. Our Project Manager, Laurie Murray was great in keeping all the cats herded. I took some time off for a couple of months after the Waterford outage then joined the Transformer Rewire Project at Grand Gulf in February 2016. I finished the Grand Gulf outage in early April then reported back to Waterford to join the Refuel Team for Reactor Core Barrel removal preparations. In August 2021 I joined the Fuel Services Team at Waterford 3 to prepare for the Fall 2022 Dry Fuel Storage Campaign as DFS Supervisor and Responsible Oversight.