PIKETON, Ohio - USEC Inc. announces the appointment of Tony Canterbury to engineering manager at its Portsmouth plant. He reports to Robert E. Helme, director of engineering.

Canterbury comes to the Portsmouth Plant after more than six years of service at USEC’s Paducah, Kentucky plant, first as reliability engineering manager, then as maintenance manager, and finally as manager of component systems engineering. He has served as interim engineering manager at Portsmouth since January 2003.

A native of Muskogee, Okla., Canterbury spent eight years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear operator, mechanic and instructor at various duty stations, including the U.S.S. George Washington (world’s first ballistic missile submarine). After his time in the Navy, he earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tulsa.

Additional past experience includes five years as a nuclear training specialist for Public Service Company of Oklahoma and two years as a reactor operator instructor for General Electric in Oklahoma and in Georgia. He also worked 11 years for Carolina Power & Light as a mechanical maintenance manager and as a component engineering manager.

Canterbury and his wife, Joan, are relocating to the southern Ohio area with their son, Anthony. They also have two daughters, Angela and Melanie and two grandchildren.

The United States Enrichment Corporation is a subsidiary of USEC Inc. (NYSE: USU), a global energy company and the world’s leading supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.

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