Timothy S. Rausch serves as PPL Generation’s senior vice president and chief nuclear officer, with responsibility for the Susquehanna nuclear power plant, a two-unit, 2,500-megawatt facility in Luzerne County, Pa.

Rausch joined PPL in July 2009 after 25 years of experience in virtually all the disciplines of the nuclear power industry.

He began his nuclear career with GPU Nuclear Corp. as an operator training instructor at the Oyster Creek plant in New Jersey. After moving to the Perry nuclear plant in Ohio, he served as emergency operations procedures coordinator, as supervisor of operations, as training manager, as quality manager, as manager of engineering and as manager of maintenance before being named plant general manager in 2002.

In 2004, he accepted a position with Exelon Nuclear Corp. as design engineering director for the company’s fleet of 17 nuclear units. In 2005, he was promoted to engineering director for the Exelon fleet. And, in 2006, he was named site vice president at the company’s Oyster Creek plant.

A native of Ohio, Rausch earned a bachelor of science in nuclear engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a master’s in business administration from Cleveland State University.

The Susquehanna plant, located in Luzerne County about seven miles north of Berwick, is owned jointly by PPL Susquehanna LLC and Allegheny Electric Cooperative Inc. and is operated by PPL Susquehanna.