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Out with the old and in with the new. It’s a familiar adage, but one that has profound connection to today’s “throw-away” society. From electronics to automobiles to appliances, we are focused on obtaining new rather than fixing old. However, in a highly regulated industry, that doesn’t always apply.
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The Westinghouse Sigma™ Reactor Coolant Pump Seal provides reliable performance and cost savings to ensure safe and long-term plant operation. This seal has been rigorously developed and tested to provide up to a 12-year life in order to reduce your seal maintenance cost, decrease refueling outage dose, eliminate seal installation issues, and more.
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With its best-in-class uranium utilization and thermal margins, TRITON11® fuel, the most recent BWR fuel innovation from Westinghouse, offers utilities the power to improve fuel cycle cost savings and optimize operations. Each key aspect of the TRITON11 design has been carefully considered, analyzed and tested to meet customers’ current and anticipated operational requirements.
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Westinghouse changed the energy industry on Dec. 2, 1957 when Shippingport, the first commercial nuclear power station in the U.S., came online. Shippingport was an engineering marvel, featuring cutting-edge technology in everything from modern machinery to metallurgy. Today, Westinghouse is changing nuclear energy again with its revolutionary new accident tolerant fuel design, EnCore® Fuel.
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