Living In A Material World

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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.

At Your Service: Westinghouse Outage Control Centers

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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.

Westinghouse Employee Featured on NEI Blog

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August 28, 2014 - A blog post by Laura Goossen, Westinghouse Nuclear Safety Culture program manager, is currently featured on theNuclear Energy Institute’s (NEI) Nuclear Notes blog

BWR Control Rod CR 99

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Flawless Operability. Market-Leading Service Lifetime

The CR 99 control rod incorporates an optimized design with two separate high-density boron carbide pins in each hole. During control rod operation, neutron irradiation causes boron carbide to swell as B-10 atoms are transformed to Li-7 and He-4. With reduced diameter and tapered ends, the hot isostatic-pressed two-pin design minimizes swelling-induced mechanical strain on the blade wings and improves the ability to control mechanical behavior.