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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
2019
James A. RippleSouthern Nuclear Operating Company
2016
Randall K. Edington
2015
Lee Rogers
2014
Jeffrey B. Archie, Sr. (VP & CNO; So. Carolina Electric & Gas):Danny G. Bost, (EVP & CNO; Southern Nuclear Operating Co.)
2013
David Heler
2012
Keith Moser (Exelon Corporation)
2011
John R. McGaha
2010
Michael Kansler
2009
Amir Shahkarami Exelon
2008
Marvin S. Fertel Nuclear Energy Institute
2007
Marilyn C. Kray NuStart
2006
Scotty Hinnant Progress Energy
2005
Michael Wallace Constellation Generation Group
2004
Joe Sheppard STP Nuclear Operating Company
2003
W. Gary Gates Omaha Public Power District
2002
C. Lance Terry TXU Electric Comanche Steam Electric Station
2001
Roy A. Anderson Nuclear Management Company
2000
James P. O'Hanlon Dominion Energy
1999
Michael S. Tuckman Duke Power Company
1998
Harold B. Ray Southern California Edison
1997
Bill Cavanaugh Carolina Power & Light
1996
Buzz Carns Wolf Creek
1995
Donald Hintz Entergy Operations
1994
Jim Schiffer Pacific Gas & Electric
