nuscale power ceo elected vice chairman of u.s. chamber of commerce
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A press release announcing that NuScale Power CEO John Hopkins has been elected vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.TRANSCRIPT
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Contact: Mike McGough Chief Commercial Officer
503.715.2238 [email protected]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 17, 2015
NuScale Powers CEO Elected Vice Chairman Of The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce
PORTLAND, Ore NuScale Power LLC announced today that the U.S. Chamber of
Commerces Board of Directors elected John L. Hopkins, president and CEO of NuScale Power
LLC, as its vice chairman. Hopkins succeeds Michael Ducker, president and CEO of FedEx
Freight, and will serve a one-year term.
In 2012, Hopkins was named chief executive officer of NuScale Power, headquartered in
Portland, Ore. In this role Hopkins is responsible for leading NuScale efforts to design, license
and bring to market game-changing technology for economic, scaleable carbon-free nuclear
technology with unprecedented safety attributes.
John has done a great job of promoting international trade and helping open up new global
markets for companies and investors, said Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S.
Chamber. He has a deep understanding of two of our most pressing issuesenergy and
infrastructureand we look forward to his leadership and expertise as we work to spur stronger
economic growth and create jobs and opportunities for Americans.
Prior to joining NuScale Power, Hopkins held several executive positions in his 24 years of
service with Fluor Corporation, a Fortune 500 international engineering and construction
company.
While at Fluor, Hopkins served as group president of the companys Corporate Development
and new Ventures Group, led Fluors Corporate Sales Board, headed Fluors Government
Group, served as group president of Fluor Global Services, and led the companys global
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Operations and Maintenance business unit. In these various capacities Hopkins was
responsible for Fluors strategic planning and global sales and marketing, spearheaded account
management activities as well as new ventures and emerging markets opportunities, and was
engaged in corporate finance, government relations, and corporate affairs.
Hopkins international experience also includes having served as the senior executive member
of both the Fluor Netherlands and the Fluor United Kingdom board of directors, as chairman of
the board for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC, and as a director of the Business Council
for International Understanding.
Hopkins is a member of the executive board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a member of
the Nuclear Energy Institute board of directors, and senior policy adviser of I Squared Capital.
About NuScale Power, LLC
NuScale Power, LLC is developing a new kind of nuclear plant; a safer, smaller, scalable
version of pressurized water reactor technology, designed with natural safety features. Fluor
Corporation (NYSE: FLR), a global engineering, procurement and construction company with a
60-year history in commercial nuclear power, is the majority investor in NuScale. As the sole
winner of the second round of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) competitively-bid, cost-
sharing program to develop nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) technology, NuScale's design
offers the benefits of carbon-free nuclear power but takes away the issues presented by the
cost of installing large capacity. A nuclear power plant using NuScale's technology is comprised
of individual NuScale Power Modules, each producing 50 megawatts of electricity (gross) with
its own factory-built combined containment vessel and reactor vessel, and its own packaged
turbine-generator set. A power plant can include as many as 12 NuScale Power Modules to
produce as much as 600 MWe, gross (570 net, nominal, after house loads). The reactor coolant
is driven by natural circulation and can be shut down safely with no operator action, no AC or
DC power, and no external water. NuScale power plants are scalable - additional modules are
added as customer demand for electricity increases. NuScale's technology also is ideally suited
to supply energy for district heating, desalination and other applications. NuScale is
headquartered in Portland, Oregon and has offices in Corvallis, OR; Rockville, MD; Atlanta, GA;
Charlotte, NC; and Chattanooga, TN. For more information visit: www.nuscalepower.com.
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