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.
Categories: Technology Leadership
Here at Westinghouse, innovation is in our DNA.
Categories: Legacy
Imagine producing enough high-quality nuclear fuel tubing to encircle the Earth more than three-and-a-quarter times. Imagine generations of families working for the same company, and even in the same facility. Imagine 20 percent of the current plant population having a family member who worked at the facility. For the employees of the Westinghouse plant in Blairsville, Pennsylvania (USA), these contributions to the nuclear industry and the world are a reality.
Our planet faces an immense climate challenge. Study after study from global experts demonstrate a stark reality. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I has concluded that human activity and greenhouse gas emissions are – with 95 percent certainty – the dominant cause of present climate change activity.
