Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:41:01 +0000
The road was long and the challenges difficult, but Plant Vogtle is now the largest nuclear power plant in the U.S., as Unit 4 was declared commercially operational on April […]
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Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 13:45:14 +0000
Westinghouse Electric Company and Bechtel have together proposed a deal to supply the Czech Republic with as many as four AP1000 nuclear reactors. The proposal aims to construct one or […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:32:21 +0000
Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ), Poland’s designated entity tasked with developing the country’s first nuclear plant in Pomerania, has signed an engineering services contract with a Westinghouse-Bechtel consortium, allowing site-specific work […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 11:56:38 +0000
Westinghouse Electric and Finnish utility Fortum will cooperate to explore developing and deploying AP1000 and AP300 reactor projects in Finland and Sweden. The companies on June 7 signed memoranda of […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 20:25:54 +0000
Westinghouse Electric Co., Bechtel, and state-owned Polish entity Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe (PEJ) will work together to kick off design activity for Poland’s inaugural AP1000 nuclear power plant later this year […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 04 May 2023 17:31:07 +0000
Westinghouse has officially unveiled the AP300, a “downsized” version of the company’s flagship AP1000 Generation III+ pressurized water reactor (PWR) technology. While the small modular reactor (SMR) will enter a nuclear market […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 23:59:35 +0000
Vogtle 3, one of two 1,117-MW Westinghouse AP1000 nuclear reactors Southern Nuclear Operating Co. is building in Georgia, has reached initial criticality. The event marks a pivotal milestone for the Generation III+ pressurized water reactor (PWR)—the first of its kind built in the U.S. “Initial criticality is a key step during the startup testing sequence […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:32:21 +0000
Westinghouse and Poland’s Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) have finalized a contract for pre-design work on what would be that country’s first nuclear power plant (NPP). The agreement announced Feb. 22 moves forward a project that began late last year when Westinghouse was selected by the Polish government to build a nuclear plant using AP1000 reactor […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 14:49:02 +0000
Competition for a new unit of up to 1.2 GW at the Czech Republic’s Dukovany nuclear power plant site has stepped up, with France’s EDF, South Korea’s Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), and a Westinghouse-Bechtel team submitting initial bids, Czech utility ČEZ, said on Nov. 30. Elektrárna Dukovany II, a. s. (EDU II), a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:38:56 +0000
Days after Poland chose Westinghouse to supply its AP1000 technology to the country’s first nuclear plant in Pomerania, northern Poland, the government and two Polish energy firms signed a letter of intent with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) to “push ahead” with development of a second nuclear plant based on APR1400 technology in Pątnów, […]
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