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Your Trusted Reactor Internals Aging Partner for Baffle-Former Bolt Services

August 9, 2016 by Westinghouse Electric Company

Categories: General Topics

For more than 130 years, companies around the world have looked to Westinghouse for practical innovations that solve their most pressing operational challenges. As the global leader in technologies to address the challenges related to long-term management of aging reactor internals, Westinghouse is a proven partner in responding to the irradiation-assisted stress corrosion cracking of baffle-former bolts. We have more than 30 years of experience in providing baffle-former bolt analysis, inspection and replacement services, with demonstrated capabilities required for addressing reactor internals aging. Utilities will experience a seamless project approach that helps to Deliver the Nuclear Promise, thanks to our effective and rapid response to planned and unplanned circumstances.

The Art of Innovation: AP1000® Power Plant Modular by Design

Categories: General Topics

One of the AP1000 plant’s innovative design features is its use of modern, modular-construction techniques. Modularization is the key to supporting delivery certainty for the construction of the plant. The modular design incorporates vendor-designed skids and equipment packages, as well as large, multi-ton structural modules and special-equipment modules.

The Art of Innovation: Westinghouse AGR Fuel

Categories: General Topics

Westinghouse has been investing in our facilities, technology and people supporting our all of our nuclear fuel products and services for decades and it shows. See why no company is more focused on nuclear fuel reliability.

Westinghouse: World’s Leading Integrated Supplier of Nuclear Fuel Products and Services

Categories: General Topics

Westinghouse has been investing in our facilities, technology and people supporting our nuclear fuel products and services for decades and it shows. See why no company is more focused on nuclear fuel reliability.

Air Brake Invention at the Heart of Westinghouse Safety Legacy

April 13, 2016 by Joe Smetanka

Categories: Our People & History

In the 19th century, most trains had cars with individuals braking systems. The brakeman was responsible for getting to each car – sometimes by walking atop the moving train – to apply the brakes manually. Tracks weren’t level. Cold and wet weather posed slip-and-fall hazards. Common injuries ranged from frostbite and hypothermia to lost fingers or, even worse, death beneath the train’s wheels.