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.
May 4, 2020 –Westinghouse Electric Company announced today a 3D-printed thimble plugging device was successfully installed in Exelon’s Byron Unit 1 nuclear plant during their spring refueling outage. It is a first-of-a-kind installation for the nuclear industry.
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Cranberry Township, Pa., July 13, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Westinghouse Electric Company LLC and university research partners to receive a total of $7.5 million in funding to advance nuclear innovation in a number of areas.