Westinghouse Suppliers Meet with the U.S. Congress in Support of AP1000® Projects
Westinghouse Suppliers Meet with the U.S. Congress in Support of AP1000® Projects
Proven AP1000 Plants Will Deliver Large Scale, Reliable Baseload Power, Create Tens of Thousands of Jobs and Enable Economic Growth
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than 30 Westinghouse Electric Company supply chain partners joined forces to meet with members of the U.S. Congress to discuss the significant benefits of deploying proven AP1000 technology in the U.S.
Through more than 80 meetings with their Congressional delegations, Westinghouse and its suppliers shared the economic impact and manufacturing jobs created in their states by building AP1000 units. As the only fully licensed, construction-ready advanced reactor available today, the AP1000 technology is ready to deliver real economic benefits to the nation now. There are two AP1000 units already in commercial operation at Plant Vogtle, near Waynesboro, Georgia, each generating enough electricity to power an estimated 500,000 households and businesses.
“The AP1000 reactor can be deployed immediately, creating affordable and abundant energy as well as high-paying, highly skilled jobs through Westinghouse and its suppliers,” said Dan Lipman, President of Westinghouse Energy Systems. “Every two-unit AP1000 project built in the U.S. will create or sustain more than 45,000 American jobs in 43 states and the District of Columbia, and 10,000 construction jobs. We appreciate the productive meetings we had with Congressional members and look forward to working closely to bring more U.S. nuclear generation online.”
Westinghouse suppliers outlined the benefits of building new nuclear power generation in the U.S. to meet the needs of the nation’s most globally competitive and energy demanding industries such as high tech and advanced manufacturing. The proven AP1000 technology is the quickest way to add advanced nuclear generation in the U.S. to meet the rising demand from utilities and hyperscalers. Suppliers also shared that with the ready to build AP1000 reactor, Westinghouse is uniquely positioned in the industry to deliver proven, reliable nuclear power at scale at the lowest cost per Mwe of any advanced reactor.
The advanced AP1000 reactor is the only operating Generation III+ reactor with fully passive safety systems, modular construction design and the smallest footprint per MWe on the market. There are six AP1000 reactors currently setting operational performance and availability records worldwide with twelve additional reactors under construction and five more under contract. There will be 18 units based on AP1000 technology in operation globally by the end of the decade. The AP1000 technology has also been selected for nuclear energy programs in Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria, and is also under consideration at multiple other sites in Europe, the United Kingdom, India and North America.
Suppliers joining Westinghouse in Washington, D.C., included:
- Celeros Flow Technology – North Carolina and Texas
- Crane Nuclear – Illinois and Georgia
- Curtiss-Wright Corporation – California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas
- Custom Engineering – Pennsylvania
- Custom Materials, Inc. – Ohio
- DuBose National Energy Services, Inc. – North Carolina
- Eaton – North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina
- Emerson – Iowa, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
- Flowserve Corporation – North Carolina, Utah, California, Texas and Tennessee
- Greenberry Industrial – Washington, Oregon and Louisiana
- Holtec – Florida, Michigan and New Jersey
- HII – Virginia
- IMI Process Automation – California
- Innomotics – Georgia and Pennsylvania
- Keel – Michigan
- MetalTek International – Wisconsin
- Mirion – Connecticut, Georgia, New York and Tennessee
- Siemens Energy Inc. – North Carolina and Florida
- Tioga Pipe – Pennsylvania
- Transco Products Inc. – Illinois
- Trillium Flow Technologies – Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
- Turner Industries Group – Louisiana and Texas
- Xylem (Evoqua) – Pennsylvania
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