Nuclear Energy Institute re-elects board chairman and vice chair

The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) re-elected Christopher Crane as board chairman and Donald Brandt as vice chairman on Tuesday.

Crane is president and CEO of Exelon Corp., and Brandt is president and CEO of Pinnacle West Capital Corp. and Arizona Public Service Co.

NEI also elected three members and re-elected six board members. Four members were re-elected to the board’s executive committee. The elections took place at a board meeting at NEI’s annual conference.

Re-elected to NEI’s executive committee were: Anthony Earley, chairman, CEO and president of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.; William Levis, president and chief operating officer of PSEG Power; Caroline Reda, president and CEO of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy; and John Young, president and CEO of Energy Future Holdings.

The newly elected board members were: Wesley Hines, head of the nuclear engineering department at the University of Tennessee; John Hopkins, chairman and CEO of NuScale Power LLC; and Daniel Poneman, president and CEO of Centrus Energy Corp.