Carol Johnson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
(SRNS). She is responsible to the Department of Energy for the safe, effective and efficient management and operations of the Savannah River Site (SRS). Her responsibilities include providing vision, leadership, mission growth, technological advancement, a performance-based culture of safety, security and operational excellence at the Site.
Carol Johnson has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the operation of high hazard nuclear facilities, environmental management, decommissioning and infrastructure at several DOE locations. Prior to joining SRNS, Johnson was President and Project Manager at Washington Closure
Hanford, LLC, at the Hanford Site in Richland, Wa., where she led the $2.4 billion environmental cleanup of the Hanford 220-square-mile Columbia River Corridor.
She has also served as the Executive Director of Infrastructure at the URS-led Sellafield remediation project in the United Kingdom, where she was responsible for critical nuclear safety related infrastructure and support services, commercial fuel transport, and nuclear materials safeguards and security.
As Director of Infrastructure for Battelle Energy Alliance at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Johnson successfully managed infrastructure capital projects for both research facilties and support facilities and led the effort to develop and implement a behavior-based safety strategy for INL. Johnson also provided operations and management consulting services as the Director of the Los Alamos
National Laboratory Advisor Program.
Johnson returned to SRS where she held positions from 1981 to 2003 as business manager for all nuclear operations, general manager for facility support services, area operations manager for nuclear materials storage and stabilization in F Area plutonium processing facilities, and facility manager for the high level waste tank farm and effluent treatment facilities.
In 2016, Johnson was named as one of the National Safety Council’s CEOs Who “Get It,” presented annually to organizational leaders who demonstrate outstanding dedication to employee safety.
Johnson serves on the board of directors for the Aiken-Edgefield-Saluda Economic Development
Partnership, the Child Advocacy Center (Aiken), the Southern Carolina Alliance and the Original Six
Foundation. She is the chairman of the Aiken Together Capital Campaign.
The Savannah River Site is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy.
The management and operating contract is held by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC.