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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

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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.

Westinghouse Springfields: A Proud History

March 31, 2016 by Mick Gornall

Categories: Our People & History

It was 70 years ago this month that the UK government announced that the now Westinghouse Springfields site, previously a war-time munitions factory, would become the country’s nuclear fuel manufacturing facility. These were exciting times – the nuclear industry was in its infancy and at the forefront of technology – and Springfields was involved right from the very beginning.

The Buzz on Hot Cells

March 30, 2016 by Westinghouse Electric Company

Categories: General Topics

Westinghouse’s Legacy of Innovation Continues at its Churchill Laboratories and Hot Cell Facility

Westinghouse's legacy of innovation has been thriving for more than 40 years at the Hot Cell Facility at its newly renovated Churchill Laboratories in Churchill, Pa. (USA).