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The primary operations performed
at the site will be transferring the
sealed canisters of used fuel from a
transportation cask into an engineered
interim fuel storage system where it will
be monitored until its departure to an
offsite permanent disposal location.
Contact: Chuck McDonald, Waste
Control Specialists, telephone: (512)
658-5958.
VVER-1000
Westinghouse Electric Company
announced the expansion of its Nuclear
Fuel Factory, situated in Västerås,
Sweden, in response to growing demand
for nuclear fuel supply diversification
for VVER-1000 reactors in Europe. The
investment finances additional production
facilities, fuel engineering work, as
well as the procurement of additional
process and assembly equipment
for manufacturing the fuel. The new
facilities were officially inaugurated by
José Emeterio Gutiérrez, Westinghouse
senior vice president for Nuclear Fuel
and Components Manufacturing today
in the presence of representatives from
the Västerås Municipality, local business
community and the Ukrainian Embassy
to the Kingdom of Sweden.
In 2016 Westinghouse will deliver
five reloads to the South Ukraine and
Zaporizhia nuclear power plants. Fifty-six
percent of Ukraine electricity production
relies on VVER-1000 nuclear power
plants. In December 2014 Westinghouse
and EnergoAtom, Ukraine’s nuclear
power plant operator, completed a fuel
supply contract extension for its VVER-
1000 reactors. Numerous inspections
in Ukraine have demonstrated that
Westinghouse fuel performs safely
and efficiently and to specification in
EnergoAtom’s reactors.
Contact: Westinghouse Public and
Media Relations, telephone: (412) 374-
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