Southern energy giant Entergy Corp. has re-hired Arizona Public Service’s Terry Young to head nuclear communications as a VP.
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Young, who directed generation communications for APS, including the largest nuclear power facility in the U.S. at Palo Verde, Ariz., is slated to join Entergy in New Orleans on Feb. 6. He started out earlier in his career as a spokesman for Entergy’s Arkansas Nuclear One plant in 1984 and will now report to group VP of corporate comms. Toni Beck.
Beck said Young will help ensure “the public’s understanding of nuclear energy’s and the company’s role in providing a “stable source of safe, cost effective and reliable energy.” He’ll also handle internal communications for Entergy’s 7,000 nuclear workers across seven states.
Young will oversee Entergy’s nuclear communications staff at each facility, as well as its Mississippi nuke headquarters and White Plains, N.Y., regional operation, close to its Indian Point nuclear facility that has drawn calls to be shut down in the New York region.
Previous postings included the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and World Association of Nuclear Operations
Entergy is the No. 2 nuke power generator in the U.S.