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May 7, 2008
South Texas Project Employees Earn ‘Best of Best’ Award for Nuclear Industry Innovation
Employees of the South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Co. have been honored with the nuclear energy industry’s B. Ralph Sylvia Best of the Best Award for their success in improving safety and lowering operational costs through their development and application of risk-management to the power plant’s technical specifications program.

May 7, 2008
Robert McGehee Honored Posthumously With Nuclear Industry's Top Leadership Award
Robert McGehee, the late chairman and chief executive officer of Progress Energy, was honored today with the industry’s William S. Lee Award for Leadership at the Nuclear Energy Institute’s annual meeting here. McGehee, who died unexpectedly last October, is the first person to be honored posthumously.

May 6, 2008
Chemical Industry Leader Envisions Major Role for Nuclear Power in Overhaul of U.S. Energy Policy
The leader of the American Chemistry Council said today that Congress has presided over a U.S. energy policy that “doesn’t make sense” and pointed to that policy as responsible for the loss of “millions of good American jobs.”

May 6, 2008
Nuclear Industry Executives Receive Call to Action To Address Nation’s Energy, Environmental Goals
The nation’s push to increase the use of carbon-free energy technologies is coupled with unprecedented electric infrastructure needs. These requirements make it imperative that private and public sectors rise to the challenge of building new nuclear plants, industry leaders said here today at the Nuclear Energy Institute’s annual conference.

May 5, 2008
Nuclear Energy Institute Re-Elects Exelon’s Rowe As Chairman, OPPD’s Gates as Vice Chairman

The Nuclear Energy Institute has re-elected John W. Rowe, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Exelon Corp., as chairman of its board of directors. NEI also has re-elected W. Gary Gates, president and CEO of the Omaha Public Power District, as vice chairman of the board.