First-Ever Installation Provides Utilities with Operational Savings and Efficiencies
Cranberry Township, PA, January 27, 2022 – Westinghouse Electric Company has signed an agreement with Southern Nuclear Operating Company to load four Lead Test Assemblies (LTAs) with next-generation fuel features into Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle Unit 2 in Waynesboro, GA. The installation is the first in Westinghouse’s High Energy Fuel initiative.
Warsaw, Poland (January 21, 2022) - Westinghouse Electric Company signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with ten companies in Poland. The MOUs, signed in both Gdańsk and the Westinghouse office in Warsaw, cover cooperation on the potential deployment of six AP1000® plants for the Polish Nuclear Power Plant program and other potential AP1000® reactor projects in Central and Eastern Europe.
Cranberry Township, PA, January 18, 2022 –Westinghouse Electric Company announced the appointment of Chief Technology Officer Dr. Rita Baranwal to lead the company’s global research and development investments and spearhead a technology strategy to advance the company’s innovative nuclear solutions.
Prague, Czech Republic, January 13, 2022 – Westinghouse Electric Company signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with seven companies in the Czech Republic. The MOUs signed at the Ministry of Industry and Trade cover cooperation on the potential deployment of an AP1000® plant for the Dukovany 5 project as well as other potential AP1000 projects in Central Europe.
Cranberry Township, PA, December 15, 2021 – Westinghouse Electric Company announced it has recently completed dismantling the first of two reactor vessels at Bohunice V1 Nuclear Power Plant in Slovakia. The annular water tanks that ensured bio-shield protection of the two reactor pressure vessels have also been dismantled.
