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 (President and CEO) Danny Bost (Executive VP and Chief Nuclear Officer) Cheryl Gayheart (Site Vice President for Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant) David Vineyard (Site Vice President, Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant) Keith Taber (Site Vice President, Site Vice President, Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Units 1 and 2) Karen Fili (Site Vice President, Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Units 3 and 4)
Products	Energy generation
Number of employees	3,500
Website	southerncompany.com

Southern Nuclear, headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., is a leader among the nation's nuclear energy facility operators and an innovator in advanced nuclear technologies. The company operates a total of six 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 currently under construction at Plant Vogtle, which are among the first nuclear units being constructed in the United States in more than 30 years.

For more than 40 years, Southern Nuclear has operated its three nuclear energy facilities at the highest levels of reliability, with 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.

Southern Nuclear has received numerous accolades in 2016 for leadership in the advancement of nuclear energy including the Special Achievement Award by the United States Nuclear Infrastructure Council and the Presidential Citation by the American Nuclear Society. Southern Nuclear also received two of the Nuclear Energy Institute's Top Innovative Practice awards and a special recognition for achieving excellence in research and performance. Plant Hatch received the ANS Operations & Power Division's Utility Achievement Award for plant improvements that resulted in a record-setting refueling outage duration.

The Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant is located on 1,850 acres along the Chattahoochee River near Dothan in southeast Alabama. Construction of the plant began in 1970. Unit 1 achieved commercial operation in December 1977. Unit 2 began commercial operation in July 1981. The total cost of the plant was about $1.57 billion.