Westinghouse Electric Company
Background
Westinghouse Electric Company, currently being sold by BNFL to Toshiba, ‘offers a wide range of nuclear plant products and services to utilities throughout the world, including fuel, service and maintenance, instrumentation and control, and advanced nuclear plant designs’. [1]
It was acquired by BNFL in March 1999. It currently employs almost 9,000 people worldwide. Headquartered in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, the company now has operations in twelve US states and fourteen countries, and annual sales of some US$1.8bn. [2]
Nearly 50 percent of the nuclear power plants in operation worldwide, and nearly 60 percent in the United States, are based on Westinghouse technology. [3]
It controls Britain's only nuclear fuel manufacturing site, Springfield Fuels. [4]
External links
- ^ Westinghouse website: ‘Company Overview’, undated, accessed February 2006.
- ^ BNFL press release ‘BNFL, Toshiba Agree to Sale of Westinghouse’, February 6, 2006.
