Categories: Technology Leadership
Chinese New Year celebrates new opportunities and the birth of a new year by marking the beginning of spring. According to Chinese tradition, I’d like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! This year’s festivities end as Engineers Week celebrations begin at Westinghouse. This is fitting for a company whose long history is based on innovation and constant renewal.
Categories: General Topics
Like the human brain, which carefully monitors your body and takes the appropriate action to keep you safe, the Advanced Logic System (ALS) platform monitors the key parameters of the plant and take action to shut it down if the plant is going beyond safe operating limits.
Categories: Policy & Government
It’s a presidential election year in the United States. Many are seriously beginning to consider who will be their preferred candidate to lead the country. Will it be someone who supports clean air commitments that the country made this past fall in Paris? Or maybe it’s someone who wants to retain hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs. Others still may want to know which candidate will help to ensure this country’s ability to generate safe, reliable and efficient baseload energy.
Categories: General Topics
ZIRLO® material is an advanced zirconium-based alloy that has high corrosion resistance to reactor coolant, fuel and fission products. This means that tubing made with ZIRLO can tolerate longer reactor cycle lengths at higher temperatures without reducing a power plant’s operating margins.
