PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company
subsidiary PaR Nuclear Inc. has received a contract to provide refueling
equipment upgrades for the units at Ulchin 3 & 4 in South Korea. The award
successfully completes a two-year proposal effort.
The contract award from Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company, Ltd.,
owners of the plants includes modifications to the refueling machine, fuel
transfer system, and spent fuel machine. Engineering design will begin
immediately with manufacturing to start in early 2007. The first sets of
equipment will be delivered in mid 2007 with field installation scheduled
to start in the early fall of 2007.
PaR Nuclear Inc. continues to be the premier supplier of fuel handling
equipment to Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Company, Ltd., and the Korean
market.
PaR Nuclear is the original equipment manufacturer of fuel-handling
equipment for 57 nuclear power plants in seven countries, including 35 in
the United States. Additionally, PaR Nuclear has provided more than 85
automated refueling equipment control system upgrades. The PaR Nuclear
workforce of approximately 125 employees is located primarily in suburban
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Westinghouse Electric Company is the world's pioneering nuclear power
company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and
technologies to utilities throughout the world. Today, Westinghouse
technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world's operating
nuclear plants.
SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company
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CONTACT:
Vaughn Gilbert of Westinghouse Electric
Company, +1-412-374-3896, or gilberhv@Westinghouse.com
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