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- My name is Steven Mills, I
am the power plant specialist

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here at Robert S. Kerr power plant.

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My people here have to
go from one extreme,

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electrically, to the other
extreme, mechanically.

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We go from confined space
to very high heights.

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We go from floodgates to
working on generators.

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So, we have to be very, very diverse.

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- Robert S. Kerr gets all
of the water from Keystone,

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all the way down the Arkansas River system

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from Eufaula, Tenkiller, Fort Gibson,

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all the water that passes
through those plants

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ultimately ends up here, so
we generate more electricity

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than any other plant in our district.

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So, in a perfect world,
normal day-to-day stuff

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would be preventative
maintenance and things like that,

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a lot of our work is
break down maintenance,

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so our job is to keep these four units

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running and producing power.

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- Up until recently, these units have ran

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with very little issues,
major issues, for a long time,

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and they get a lot of
production out of them.

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- In a lot of these jobs,
we have smaller crews,

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so it takes everybody together,

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there's a lot of times where
we just have to come together,

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like when they build
scaffolding in the turbine,

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we're all down there throwing boards in.

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- What we do really provides a service

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for more people than most get to affect,

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and I think that's a really good thing.

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Honestly, I think my
favorite is the people.

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The people I work with, for the most part,

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most of them are real
knowledgeable, good people.

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- I probably got the best crew there is,

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they're very diversified,

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they can be working on
the generator one day,

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and the next day they can
be repairing the turbine,

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or whatever they need to do.

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I get along extremely well and

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I couldn't be more proud of this group

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and the group I have right now.