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Biographical profile Karl W. Singer |
Chief Nuclear Officer
Executive Vice President,
TVA Nuclear
Karl W. Singer was named Chief Nuclear Officer and Executive Vice President, TVA Nuclear, in June 2004. He had previously served as Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations. As Chief Nuclear Officer, Singer is responsible for all management and operations associated with TVA Nuclear. He has more than 21 years of experience in the nuclear industry, with an extensive background in the areas of power plant operations, mechanical engineering, maintenance and modifications, site support, and business services.
Singer joined TVA in March 1993 as Plant Project Engineer of Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Athens, Alabama. In December 1994 he became TVAN Process Improvement and Total Quality Manager in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in August 1996 he returned to Browns Ferry as Maintenance and Modifications Manager. He progressed to Browns Ferry Plant Manager in June 1997 and achieved the lowest nonfuel O&M costs and highest capacity factor for any boiling-water reactor in the United States. He was a key player in the achievement of the first Browns Ferry Nuclear Regulatory Commission SALP 1 (systematic assessment of licensee performance) for maintenance, and the first Browns Ferry INPO 1 in plant performance.
Singer was named Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations, in June 1999. In that role he was responsible for directing the operations and applicable support activities at TVA’s three nuclear operating sites in order to safely produce electrical power at a competitive rate. Under his direction, TVA nuclear plants set world refueling records as well as a world generation record.
Prior to joining TVA, Singer served in the U.S. Navy, where he held a variety of positions, including tactical weapons training and certification inspector, engineering department head, associate professor of naval science, officer-in-charge and main propulsion assistant, reactor controls assistant, and chemistry and radiological controls assistant.
Singer earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982 and an MBA from Golden Gate University in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1989.
