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PITTSBURGH, June 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced the winning entries for its N-Vision Forms of Energy video contest.McKeesport High School in McKeesport, Pa. (USA), submitted the winning video in the high school category. St. Patrick Middle School in Canonsburg, Pa. (USA), submitted the winning video in the middle school category. Student members of the winning teams were awarded $100 for school supplies, and their schools each received $3000 to be...

PITTSBURGH, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Purdue University researchers have completed large-scale tests to verify the structural integrity of the shield building that contains the main components of the Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear power plant. The researchers determined that the structure is flexible and strong enough to withstand earthquake forces more powerful than federal design requirements, and that the structure provides a significant reserve margin to ensure radiation is contained....

PITTSBURGH, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company can confirm that it has made a proposal regarding the planned nuclear new build project for the Visaginas site in the Republic of Lithuania. Westinghouse sees Lithuania as an important market because it is a mature market with significant nuclear experience, and this project has a strategic significance across the whole Baltic Region. We are pleased to see that the Lithuanian authorities recognize the important role...

PITTSBURGH, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Officials of Westinghouse Electric Company today said they are disappointed that recent U.S. NRC statements regarding the discovery of new issues relating to the approval of design amendments for the AP1000® nuclear power plant are being misinterpreted and sensationalized. The company also said the NRC statements, including a news release issued May 20, do not reflect Westinghouse's transparent and cooperative approach to the handling of the...

PITTSBURGH, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company (www.westinghousenuclear.com) has developed an emergency fuel pool cooling system (EFPCS) to keep spent nuclear fuel cool in emergency situations, including the loss of all plant power. The system consists of a permanently installed "primary" cooling loop located inside the reactor building or spent fuel pool (SFP) building, and a mobile "secondary" cooling loop. The secondary cooling loop is stored off-site and then...

Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks community comments For Honeywell Corp. uranium plant where workers locked out METROPOLIS, Ill., May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Town hall meeting will be held by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday, May 23rd, 7:00 pm (CDST) at the Massac County Courthouse, One Superman Square, Metropolis, IL for community comment on the agency's license oversight review of the Honeywell Metropolis plant performance with safety operations,...

PITTSBURGH, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse is confident in the AP1000 design and its passive safety features, as it is one of the most studied, reviewed and analyzed nuclear power plant designs in the history of the commercial nuclear power industry. No other reactor design has received such scrutiny before or has gone through such thorough analytical review by the NRC and the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), as well as highly respected independent experts and...

PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company President and CEO Dr. Aris S. Candris today addressed the company's 15,000 global employees and delivered a message of optimism for the nuclear energy industry. One of the primary topics of the address was the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. While Dr. Candris acknowledged that the crisis may result in a period of review and reassessment of nuclear energy,...

Expert Offers Direct NRC Licensing, Regulatory Affairs, ROP Task Force, and Nuclear Fleet Experience to Certrec Clients Fort Worth, TX (PRWEB) May 13, 2011 Certrec, a leading regulatory licensing and compliance solutions provider, is pleased to announce that noted nuclear compliance expert, Al Haeger, has joined Certrec as Manager of Certrec's Office of Licensing and Compliance, a full-service NRC compliance solution for nuclear generators. "Even before the devastation at Japan's...

WASHINGTON, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. nuclear energy industry operates at high levels of safety that are being enhanced through early lessons from the Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan, Nuclear Energy Institute President and CEO Marvin Fertel said today. Nuclear energy facilities generate 20 percent of America's electricity and support the nation's energy security, environmental and economic priorities. "We believe that American nuclear plants are well prepared and...