Westinghouse Electric Company LLC products

Shaping Tomorrow’s Energy with the AP1000 PWR. Superior safety. Simplified design.
The established design of the AP1000® reactor offers three distinct advantages over other designs: Unequaled safety, Economic competitiveness, Improved and more efficient operations.

Westinghouse is currently developing a Lead-cooled Fast reactor (LFR) concept; a next-generation nuclear plant with significantly improved economics, higher efficiency, and capabilities beyond electricity generation. The LFR achieves new levels of energy affordability by adopting innovative design features to simplify and compact the plant, and enhanced construction modularity to shorten the construction schedule. Use of lead as coolant, with a boiling point exceeding 1700°C, allows for high temperature operation at atmospheric pressure without boiling concerns, which benefits thermodynamic efficiency, reduces capital cost and facilitates achieving inherent safety compared to pressurized systems. Because lead coolant does not react with air and water and has limited activation under neutron irradiation, LFR technology eliminates the need and associated expense of extra components and redundant safety systems required by other technologies for protection against coolant leakages.

PaR Nuclear, a subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, provides all types and sizes of cranes for use in nuclear power plants, with particular expertise and experience in outage-critical cranes. An outage-critical crane, a polar crane or reactor building crane, is one whose performance has the potential to impact refueling outage duration. As nuclear plants progressively reduce refueling outage durations, crane performance increasingly affects critical-path outage time.

The new FuelMaster boiling water reactor (BWR) mast, designed by PaR Nuclear, Inc., a subsidiary of Westinghouse, is a freefloating, free-swinging, telescoping mast developed as a replacement mast on existing BWR refueling and fuel-handling platforms. Made of 304 stainless steel tubing, the mast is a square, tubular design with one stationary section and three moving sections. PaR Nuclear designed this mast with the following objectives in mind: simplicity, ease of maintenance, interchangeability of components, and suitable clearances to prevent binding and crud traps.

Westinghouse, through its subsidiary PaR Nuclear, Inc., has developed a packaged solution to modernize obsolete and aging motion systems using Schneider Electric Altivar motor drive technology. This design has undergone extensive testing and is now available so that customer equipment operates reliably and predictably.