Living In A Material World

Categories: General Topics

A look inside the Westinghouse Materials Center of Excellence.  

When the iconic pop singer Madonna had her 1980s hit “Material Girl” she sang, “we are living in a material world, and I am a material girl.” At the Westinghouse Materials Center of Excellence, located in Churchill, Pennsylvania, USA, there are more than 70 employees living in the material world. Here, though, instead of obsessing over diamond rings and Lamborghinis, this crew is interested in reactor vessel internals and other irradiated nuclear components.

Springfields Rewards and Recognized for Growing Pipeline of Nuclear Professionals

Categories: Our People & Culture

November 2, 2014 - Westinghouse Springfields (UK) nuclear fuel manufacturing site recently held our annual Skills Awards Day recognising the achievements of young engineers enrolled in the Advanced Apprentice Training Programme and our employees who have achieved academic success in the past year.

Congratulations to Vogtle 3&4 Team on Ap1000® Plant Module Placement

Categories: Next-Gen Plants

October 24, 2014 - Congratulations to the AP1000 plant team at the Vogtle site in Georgia on its latest achievement: successfully placing the CA05 structural module for Vogtle Unit 3.

At Your Service: Westinghouse Outage Control Centers

Categories: General Topics

The Westinghouse Outage Control Center is an innovative, high-tech operation that provides vital central monitoring and response to our utility customers’ outage operations at nuclear power plant sites 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week during outage seasons.

60th Anniversary of Shippingport Groundbreaking

Categories: Legacy

Mark Marano is president of the Americas Region for Westinghouse Electric Company. Sixty years ago this month, ground was broken on a project that shaped the future of the entire nuclear industry. Work on the Shippingport Atomic Power Station – the world’s very first commercial nuclear reactor – officially began on September 9, 1954. Located just outside of Pittsburgh in Shippingport, Pennsylvania (USA), this Westinghouse-designed pressurized water reactor (PWR) spurred innovation in an industry that continues to gain global importance and recognition today.