BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2005--USEC Inc.'s Board of Directors today elected Victor N. Lopiano vice president, American Centrifuge. Lopiano is responsible for deployment of USEC's next-generation uranium enrichment technology, the American Centrifuge, and will oversee manufacturing of centrifuge machines by USEC's suppliers. He will report to Philip G. Sewell, senior vice president, American Centrifuge and Russian HEU.
Lopiano joined USEC in 1996 and was assigned to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was the senior USEC manager. Since 2000, he has served as director, projects, in the Company's corporate development department. Prior to joining USEC, he held senior management positions with various business units of ABB, Inc. over an 11-year period including senior vice president, operations, ABB Environmental Systems and vice president, project services, ABB Power Plant Systems. He previously worked for Burns and Roe, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in the engineering, procurement and construction of several power plants and cogeneration facilities.
"Vic has an impressive history of managing complex projects, constructing industrial facilities and developing strong partnerships with other companies," said Sewell. "His leadership of our teams in Tennessee and Ohio will be crucial as we begin manufacturing centrifuges on a large scale."
Lopiano earned a bachelor of engineering in electrical engineering from Manhattan College and a master of engineering in nuclear engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of New York and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
USEC Inc. (NYSE:USU), a global energy company, is the world's leading supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.
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