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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that Howard Bruschi has been elected an International Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom. He was cited for his exceptional leadership and ingenuity in the design, development and licensing of the Westinghouse Electric Company advanced passively safe AP600(TM) and AP1000(TM) nuclear power reactors. Mr. Bruschi was formally inducted into The Royal Academy in a ceremony...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company has been awarded a five-year contract to provide an extensive array of engineering services to Asociacion Nuclear Asco Vandellos (ANAV) nuclear plants in Spain. Under contract terms, Westinghouse will provide Nuclear Steam Supply Station (NSSS) and balance-of-plant (BOP) support, including systems engineering; Probabilistic Risk Assessment (Class 1 and 2); NSSS mechanical and instrumentation and control (I&C)...
LONDON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuclear Power Delivery UK - the delivery organisation for the Westinghouse-designed AP1000(TM) nuclear reactor - today signed a contract with Horizon Nuclear Power for preliminary work to be carried out between now and the end of the year, as part of preparatory design studies for Horizon's proposed new power station in North Wales. Managing Director of Nuclear Power Delivery UK, Dr. Rita Bowser, said, "This is a welcome demonstration from Horizon that they...
PITTSBURGH, July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company announced today the appointment of Shigenori Shiga to the position of Chairman, replacing Steve Tritch, who retired July 1. Mr. Shiga has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Coordination Officer for Westinghouse since 2006 and concurrently serves as Executive Vice President of Toshiba Corporation's Power Systems Company. He will assume his new role immediately, and his primary responsibilities will be to provide...
PITTSBURGH, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW), China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC), and Shandong Nuclear Power Company Ltd are pleased to announce the successful completion of the first pour of basemat structural concrete for the nuclear island of Unit 2 at the Haiyang site in China. The placement of the basemat concrete was completed in a record time of 40 hours and 39 minutes for an...
PITTSBURGH, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- NuCrane Manufacturing LLC (NuCrane) has begun fabricating, assembling and testing specialty cranes for nuclear power plants, including the Westinghouse-designed AP1000(TM) plants under construction in China and those planned for future construction in the U.S. NuCrane - a joint venture between Westinghouse Electric Company subsidiary PaR Nuclear, Inc. of Shoreview, Minn., and Hutchinson Manufacturing, Inc., (HMI) of Hutchinson, Minn. - was formed in...
PITTSBURGH, March 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today confirmed that it will commence innovative new commercial arrangements with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) involving the long-term lease of the Springfields nuclear fuel manufacturing site, near Preston in Lancashire. The new arrangements were marked at a ceremony on the site today attended by President and CEO of Westinghouse Dr. Aris S. Candris, NDA Commercial Director John Clarke and President &...
The following statement is attributable to Dr. Aris S. Candris, President and CEO of Westinghouse Electric Company. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse and its consortium team member The Shaw Group (NYSE: SHAW), are under contract to provide two of Westinghouse AP1000(TM) nuclear power plants at Southern's Vogtle site in Georgia. The consortium is also building four AP1000s(TM) in China and has been selected to provide no less than 12 additional AP1000s elsewhere in the...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company, its consortium team member The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW), China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation (SNPTC) and Sanmen Nuclear Power Company of China National Nuclear Corporation are pleased to announce the successful completion of the first pour of basemat structural concrete for the nuclear island of Unit 2 at the Sanmen site in China. Placement of the basemat structural concrete for Unit 2 was completed in 42...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Westinghouse will co-lead and participate in the 5th Annual U.S. Commercial Nuclear Trade Mission to India that has been organized by the U.S.-India Business Council, U.S. Commercial Service, and Nuclear Energy Institute. The U.S. Nuclear Trade Mission takes place in Delhi and Mumbai on December 6-11, 2009. Westinghouse is represented by Ms. Meena Mutyala, vice president of Global Growth and Business Leader, India. She is joined by two members...
