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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company has appointed Michael Sweeney to the position of vice president and deputy general counsel, Westinghouse Legal and Contracts, Environment, Health and Safety. In this newly formed role, Mr. Sweeney is responsible for providing ongoing operational leadership in Legal and Contracts, Environment, Health and Safety and for supporting Westinghouse product lines and global regions. Additionally, Mr. Sweeney will be instrumental in...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company's Nuclear Automation product line this week announced two key organizational appointments in accordance with the company's recent organizational restructuring. Appointment of Vice President, Engineering and Product Development, Nuclear Automation Meena Mutyala is named vice president, Engineering and Product Development for Nuclear Automation. In this new role, Ms. Mutyala is responsible for providing focused leadership of the...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company LLC announced today that it has successfully completed the Final Design Review of the AP1000(TM) squib valves. Representatives from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and AP1000(TM) utility customers were in attendance during the Final Design Review. Westinghouse has also successfully completed prototype testing of the AP1000(TM) squib valves and has begun the manufacturing process. These steps mark important...
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 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced several organizational appointments in support of its newly formed Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, based in Brussels. "The opportunities for success in this area of the world are literally limitless," said Anders Jackson, Westinghouse president of Europe, Middle East and Africa. "The new regional structure is organized to help us seize these opportunities as well as prepare us to meet the needs of...
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 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company achieved a significant improvement in the thermal performance of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station in Seabrook, N.H., as a result of cleaning the station's four steam generators using the Advanced Scale Conditioning Agent (ASCA) process. The cleaning was completed during a fall 2009 plant refueling outage. The ASCA cleaning at Seabrook was the twenty-fifth application of the technology for Westinghouse or its licensees...
PITTSBURGH, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced the appointment of Jim Ferland to the position of president, Americas Region. Mr. Ferland, a former Westinghouse vice president who has served the past three years as senior vice president of Utility Operations for PNM Resources in Albuquerque, N.M., begins his new assignment October 1. However, he will join Westinghouse in August to begin establishing the Americas organization. His appointment completes...
PITTSBURGH, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced a new organizational structure built around a regional approach to conducting business and four individual product lines which will now report to a newly appointed President of Operations. In making the announcement, Westinghouse President and CEO Dr. Aris S. Candris said the new organization is an outgrowth of a detailed, two-year analysis to further ensure that Westinghouse is well prepared to meet the...
MIDLAND, Texas, June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- STW Resources Holding Corp. ("STW Resources"), a water reclamation company, which expects to be publicly traded soon, today named Manfred E. Birnbaum to its Board of Directors. After thirty years of executive experience at Westinghouse Electric Corp. and General Electric Corp., Birnbaum has been an independent management consultant for such companies as Westinghouse, ABB, Siemens, Alstom, Duke Power, Foster Wheeler, Electronics Associates and...
