The former chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now part of a utility company’s board of directors, according to a press release this week.
Kristine Svinicki, who was the top regulator at NRC from 2017 to January, was elected to Southern Company’s board effective Sunday, the company said in a press release dated Monday. Svinicki now sits on both the board’s business security committee as well as its operations and environmental safety committee, the release said.
The Southern Company owns the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Ga. Plant Vogtle is the only nuclear reactor construction site in the country — the plant is getting two new Westinghouse reactors.
Since resigning from NRC in January, Svinicki has also accepted a faculty post at the University of Michigan’s nuclear engineering and radiological science department.
Svinicki left NRC after serving three years of her latest five-year term. She was the longest tenured NRC commissioner in history, having served on the body since 2008.
