Southern Nuclear

Southern Nuclear Operating Company, Inc.
Type	Subsidiary of Southern Company
Industry	Nuclear plant operator
Founded	1990
Headquarters	Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Key people	• Steve Kuczynski (CEO); • Peter Sena (President); • Richard Libra (Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer); • Cheryl W. Brakefield (Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer); • Earl Berry (Vice President of Engineering); • Shane Camp (Vice President of Human Resources); • Ho Nieh (Vice President of Regulatory Affairs); • Millicent W. Ronnlund (Vice President of General Counsel & Compliance Officer); • Chuck Kharrl (Vice President of Operations Support); • Delson Erb (Site Vice President of Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant); • Johnny Weissinger (Site Vice President of Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant); • Edwin (Sonny) D. Dean (Site Vice President of Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2); • Glen Chick (Site Vice President of Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 3 and 4);
Products	Energy generation
Number of employees	3,500
Website	southernnuclear.com

Southern Nuclear, headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., is a nuclear energy facility operators and involved in advanced nuclear technologies research. The company operates a total of seven units for Alabama Power and Georgia Power at the Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant near Dothan, Ala.; the Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant near Baxley, Ga., and the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant near Waynesboro, Ga. Southern Nuclear is the licensee of two new nuclear units at Plant Vogtle, which are among the first nuclear units being constructed in the United States in more than 30 years.

Southern Nuclear's reliability has a current average three-year fleet capacity factor of 93.2 percent, exceeding the U.S. average of 91.2 percent for the years 2013–2015.

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