PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company
issued the following statement in response to announcement by the Tennessee
Valley Authority and NuStart Energy consortium, comprising 12 other
prominent U.S. utilities and reactor manufacturers, that a combined
construction and operating license application was filed today with the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for two reactors at the Bellefonte
nuclear power plant in northern Alabama.
"Westinghouse is honored to have the AP1000 as the standard design for
the NuStart, TVA COL application," said Dan Lipman, senior vice president,
Westinghouse Nuclear Power Plants. "This is a major milestone in the NP2010
program, and we now begin a rigorous NRC review process and prepare for
construction.
"In continuing to work together - industry and government - we will
bring about new baseload, emissions-free nuclear generating capacity to
enhance U.S. energy supply diversity and energy security. In the near
future, other utilities will reference the AP1000 in their COL applications
as we move ahead with the nuclear renaissance in the United States."
Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation,
is the world's pioneering nuclear power company and is a leading supplier
of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the
world. Westinghouse supplied the world's first PWR in 1957 in Shippingport,
Pa. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half
of the world's operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in
the United States.
SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company
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