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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company celebrated the grand opening of its first United States Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) Training Center and its second WEC Welding Institute on August 20, 2009 in Chattanooga, Tenn. The grand opening celebration, attended by 225 Westinghouse employees, BWR customers and invited guests, included a ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by site tours which featured 18 BWR tooling exhibits and welding demonstrations. Nick Liparulo,...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced sponsorship of a grant for middle and high Schools focusing on science, technology or mathematics through a proposed hands-on project with students. Administered through the company's speaker's bureau, N-Vision, the grant is designed to encourage both teachers and students to think of a creative project based on energy, math, science, or technology in the context of worldwide political, economic and...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company announced the appointment of William C. Burns as president of subsidiary company PaR Nuclear, effective immediately. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090811/NE60011 ) In making the announcement, Westinghouse Field Services Vice President David Howell said: "PaR Nuclear will play a significant role in support of crane projects for the AP1000(TM) nuclear plants that Westinghouse will be providing throughout the...

PITTSBURGH, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC has acquired CS Innovations, LLC, a leading Instrumentation and Control (I&C) nuclear product supplier to the digital I&C safety system upgrade market. The transaction is expected to be completed within August 2009. Located in Scottsdale, Ariz., United States, CS Innovations will become known as CS Innovations, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC. CS Innovations offers the only non-software-based...

PITTSBURGH, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it and The Shaw Group Inc., (NYSE: SGR) have been awarded a contract by South Carolina Electric & Gas Company (SCE&G), the principal subsidiary of SCANA Corporation (NYSE: SCG), to provide nuclear maintenance, modification, refueling outage and design engineering services to its existing V.C. Summer Nuclear Station Unit 1 as well as to Units 2 and 3, Westinghouse AP1000 (TM) nuclear...

-New company to serve as single focal point for full range of products and services PITTSBURGH and TOKYO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company ("Westinghouse") today announced the formation of Westinghouse Electric Japan, a new organization that will provide a single focal point for all Westinghouse products and services manufactured, sold or procured in Japan. Westinghouse also announced that it has appointed Jack B. Allen, currently senior vice president of Westinghouse...

PITTSBURGH, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has been awarded a contract to design, fabricate and install a new steam dryer for Xcel Energy's Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, a single-unit GE-designed Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) located 40 miles northwest of St. Paul, Minn. To execute this project, Westinghouse will employ its global BWR engineering workforce at multiple locations, as well as at Toshiba Corporation, Westinghouse's majority...

- Company affirms commitment to localization, infrastructure - Follows signing of nuclear cooperation agreement by U.S., India PITTSBURGH, May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company announced today that it will begin discussions with Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., (NPCIL) with a goal of reaching agreement on the deployment of Westinghouse AP1000(TM) nuclear power plants in India. The announcement followed signing of a memorandum of understanding by Dr. S. K. Jain,...

- Middle and High School Students Encouraged to Participate - To Promote Reflection on Nuclear and Other Energy Sources PITTSBURGH, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company announced today its winning entries for its N-Vision Forms of Energy Contest. The High School winning video came from Butler Senior High School located in Butler, Pa., and was produced by the school's 11th and 12th grade Television Production class. The Middle School winning video came from McKinley...

- Integrated nuclear fuel company to operate as Westinghouse subsidiary PITTSBURGH, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company announced today the signing of a share transfer agreement with Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., under which Westinghouse Electric UK Limited will acquire a combined 52 percent stake in Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd. (NFI), Japan's sole producer of nuclear fuel for both boiling-water and pressurized-water reactors. The...