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important. Westinghouse firmly believes
in the huge potential growth of South
Africa’s energy business towards a more
balanced portfolio of clean sources of
renewable and nuclear energy.
Contact: Scott Shaw, telephone: (412)
374-6737, email
com.
SMR Development
Westinghouse Electric Company
has entered into an agreement with Burns
& McDonnell Engineering Company,
Inc. to further the development and
licensing of the Westinghouse Small
Modular Reactor (SMR), a passively safe
design that has the potential to provide
economical, secure sources of emissions-
free electricity generation to the world’s
rapidly changing and diverse markets.
Under the scope of the agreement,
Burns & McDonnell will perform a
variety of engineering services in support
of the ongoing efforts to develop the base
plant design and the Design Certification
Document (DCD) for the Westinghouse
SMR. Additionally, Burns & McDonnell
will provide engineering services to assist
with development of the Westinghouse
SMR construction program.
Westinghouse estimates that the
building of a single Westinghouse SMR
will provide an estimated economic
impact of nearly $3 billion in more than
15 states and will create or sustain more
than 15,000 direct and indirect jobs. As
this technology is exported to the world,
the number of U.S. jobs would continue
to increase.
The Westinghouse SMR team,
including the NexStart SMR Alliance,
a consortium of current and prospective
nuclear plant owners and operators;
cooperative, municipal and investor-
owned electric service providers; and,
other public and private enterprises, will
workcollaboratively toexecute aproposed
project having an objective of receiving
from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission design certification of the
Westinghouse SMR and then a combined
construction and operating license for a
Westinghouse SMR atAmerenMissouri’s
Callaway Energy Center.
Contact: Sarah Barczyk, telephone:
(412) 374-3705, email:
The GEH and Fluor consortium
submitted the proposal, following
selection by Teollisuuden Voima Oyj
(TVO) last year to participate in the
bidding process to build a new reactor at
TVO’s OL4 site on Finland’s west coast.
The GEH ESBWR, a Generation III+
reactor design, utilizes natural circulation
and passive safety systems, and can safely
cool itself with no AC electrical power or
human action for more than seven days.
Contact: George Clarke, telephone:
(910) 819-2044, email
ge.com.
Concrete Pour
The
following
statement
is
attributable to
Westinghouse Electric
Company
President and CEO Danny
Roderick:
“The successful completion of the
first concrete pour at V.C. Summer Unit 2
signifies the start of an exciting new phase
in the delivery of our AP1000
®
plants
in the United States. It is a milestone
of global significance that positions our
consortium team to move forward with
work on the critically important module
installation.
“Westinghouse is proud to be
delivering
these
technologically
advanced nuclear power plant units to
our customers in South Carolina. The
AP1000 plant’s innovative passive safety
systems, combined with its proven
technologies, will enable South Carolina
Electric & Gas (SCE&G) and Santee
Cooper to provide safe, clean, reliable
electricity to the citizens they serve,
for generations to come. The two units
at V.C. Summer will help power the
economy with needed baseload electricity
and provide well-paying jobs – both now
during construction and during the future
operation of the plant.
Contact: Sheila Holt, telephone:
(412) 374-6379, email:
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