MONTREAL – SNC-Lavalin has appointed a former chief nuclear officer from a major U.S. power producer to head its Candu Energy unit based in Toronto.
Preston Swafford, who will be chief executive of Candu Energy and chief nuclear officer for SNC, will be responsible growing a business that refurbishes and builds nuclear-powered plants around the world.
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As chief nuclear officer at Tennessee Valley Authority until he left last year, Swafford was responsible for managing six nuclear operating units.
The nuclear engineer is certified as a senior reactor operator on U.S.-design light water reactors.
Swafford has served as chairman of the Nuclear Safety Review Board at the Bruce Power site in Ontario and has been a member of safety review board in Rochester, N.Y., and a recently formed international advisory board to the Japan Nuclear Safety Institute (JANSI).
Candu Energy has focused on refurbishment projects in Argentina and Ontario as it looks for opportunities for costly new builds.
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