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Honoring Nuclear Innovation

Top Innovative Practice (TIP) Award demonstrate Westinghouse’s leadership in steam generator services and technology

Westinghouse Helps Secure Long-term Operation at Forsmark Units 1 and 2

VÄSTERÅS, Sweden, May 25, 2016 - Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it signed a contract with Forsmark Kraftgrupp AB to upgrade the non-safety related information and control systems at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant’s units 1 and 2. The upgrades are part of a strategic program designed to secure the long-term operation of the two reactors.

Westinghouse Zephyr® Saves Customers Time and Money

MIAMI, May 24, 2016 – Today, the Arizona Public Service Company’s Palo Verde Generating Station in Wintersburg, Ariz., was honored with a Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Top Innovative Practice (TIP) award for enhancing plant performance. The Westinghouse Combustion Engineering Vendor Award went to Palo Verde for successfully piloting commercial application of the Westinghouse Zephyr® Advanced Acquisition System.

Westinghouse Contracts With Finland’s TVO to Deliver New Reactor Components

VÄSTERÅS, Sweden, May 17, 2016 - Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has signed a contract with Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) in Finland to deliver new feedwater spargers to the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Units 1 and 2.

Westinghouse Improves AP1000® RCP Installation Delivery Certainty by 37%

Beijing, May 5, 2016 – Westinghouse Electric Company, Sanmen Nuclear Power Company, Shandong Nuclear Power Company, State Nuclear Power Engineering Company and China Nuclear Industry Fifth Construction Company have together installed eight reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) at the world’s first AP1000 nuclear power plant units under construction in China. The complex process was improved by 11 days thanks to the return on experience gained from the first RCP installation at Sanmen Unit 1 in Zhejiang Province to the final RCP at Haiyang Unit 1 in Shandong Province.