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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.

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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

  • 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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