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Britt T. McKinney is senior vice president and chief nuclear officer for PPL Susquehanna LLC. He has overall responsibility for the safe and reliable operation of the two-unit, 2,360-megawatt Susquehanna nuclear power plant near Berwick, Pa.
McKinney, who has more than 31 years’ experience in the nuclear power industry, came to PPL in May 2004 as vice president-Nuclear Site Operations for the Susquehanna plant. He was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in May 2005.
Before joining PPL, McKinney served as site vice president at the Wolf Creek nuclear generating station. During his 23 years with Wolf Creek, a 1,240 megawatt facility in Burlington, Kan., he held a variety of management positions in power plant operations, training, technical support and instrumentation and control, and was a plant manager. As site vice president, he was responsible for site direction, with the plant manager, engineering, emergency planning, security, resource protection, environmental management, training and performance improvement functions reporting to him.
McKinney started his career at the Fort St. Vrain nuclear generating station in Colorado, and was involved in the restart of Unit 2 at the Browns Ferry nuclear generating station in Alabama.
McKinney has been a licensed senior reactor operator. He has a master’s degree in power engineering from New Mexico State University and bachelor’s degrees in engineering science, business administration and mathematics from Regis College, Denver, Colo. | 