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Southern announced Mr Klein’s election to its board yesterday. Mr Klein, 62, is currently the associate vice-president of research and associate director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas in Austin.
Mr Klein served as chairman of the NRC from July 2006 to May 2009 and as a commissioner until March 2010. He also serves on the boards of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and its primary subsidiary, Arizona Public Service Company.
Earlier this year, Southern agreed the terms for conditional loan guarantees from the federal government to break ground on the first new nuclear plant in the country in more than three decades. Two new Westinghouse AP1000 units are set to be built at the existing Vogtle nuclear plant, where the company already owns and operates two nuclear units.
The conditional loan guarantees become final when the Vogtle project receives its combined construction and operating licence, which is scheduled to be issued by the NRC in late 2011.
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