Cranberry Township, PA, July, 5, 2022 – Westinghouse Electric Company has named Jacques Besnainou as Executive Vice President, Global Markets and Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately. In this role, Besnainou will lead Westinghouse’s global commercial strategy to deliver integrated enterprise-wide solutions and deepen customer relationships.
Cranberry Township, PA, June 29, 2022 – NASA, in partnership with Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL), has selected Westinghouse Electric Company to provide an initial design concept for a fission surface power system that could be ready to launch to the Moon by the end of the decade.
Prague, Czech Republic, June 28, 2022 – Westinghouse Electric Company signed an agreement with ČEZ to supply fuel assemblies at the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Westinghouse will deliver fuel assemblies beginning in 2024 to fully replace the current supplier with an anticipated term of 15 years. Since April 2019, six Westinghouse lead fuel assemblies have been in operation in Temelín Unit 1.
Västerås, Sweden – June 13, 2022 – Westinghouse installed its StrongHold® AM 3D-printed nuclear fuel debris filters in two Nordic Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) units – Olkiluoto 2 in Finland, and Oskarshamn 3 in Sweden – to further improve the plants’ operational reliability.
Cranberry Township, PA and San Jose, Calif. – June 6, 2022 – Westinghouse Electric Company and Bloom Energy Corporation (NYSE:BE) today announced that they have entered into a Letter of Intent to pursue clean hydrogen production in the commercial nuclear power market. The companies are teaming to identify and implement clean hydrogen projects across the nuclear industry.
