Westinghouse toont als eerste aan dat het Verenigd Koninkrijk klaar is voor productie SMR-kernbrandstof
CHORLEY, United Kingdom–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Westinghouse Electric Company heeft vandaag bekendgemaakt dat zijn faciliteit in de Britse plaats Springfields aan alle vereisten voldoet voor de productie van kernbrandstof voor een kleine modulaire kernreactor (Small Modular Reactor, SMR). Dit is een mijlpaal voor de voorgestelde samenwerking tussen Westinghouse en de regering van het Verenigd Koninkrijk ten behoeve van SMR-technologie – een stap die het Verenigd Koninkrijk vooruithelpt als internationale leverancier van de nieuwste kernenergietechnologie.
Mick Gornall, algemeen directeur van Westinghouse Springfields, zei: “De productie van Westinghouse-kernbrandstof voor kleine, modulaire reactoren garandeert de toekomst van het strategische, nationale vermogensobject dat de productie van kernbrandstof is en vormt een waarborg voor goedbetaalde werkplekken voor zeer vakkundige werknemers – iets wat geen enkele andere leverancier van SMR-technologie momenteel biedt.”
Westinghouse First to Demonstrate UK’s Readiness for SMR Fuel Fabrication
CHORLEY, United Kingdom–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today, Westinghouse Electric Company announced that the company’s Springfields facility in the United Kingdom has reached the requirements necessary to manufacture Westinghouse Small Modular Reactor (SMR) fuel. A key first for the U.K.’s SMR program, this readiness milestone is an important part of Westinghouse’s proposed partnership with the U.K. government to deploy SMR technology – a move that would advance the U.K. to becoming a global provider of the latest nuclear energy technology.
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Westinghouse Springfields fuel facility located in the U.K., and employing more than 1,000, is found fully capable of manufacturing SMR fuel for a global SMR market. (Photo: Business Wire)
Mick Gornall, managing director, Westinghouse Springfields, said, “Manufacturing Westinghouse SMR fuel at Springfields will secure the future of a strategic national asset of nuclear fuel manufacturing capability and safeguard highly skilled and highly paid U.K. jobs – something that no other SMR technology provider currently offers.”
Westinghouse Springfields achieved this crucial milestone following a readiness assessment based upon fabrication data for two proprietary SMR fuel assemblies manufactured at the company’s Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in Columbia, S.C., USA.
“Our program is mature and ready to support the global SMR market, as evidenced by our ability to integrate bona fide reactor and fuel technology for the Westinghouse SMR program, which has been proposed for the U.K. government,” said Jeff Benjamin, senior vice president, New Plants and Major Projects.
Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502), is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and is a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Westinghouse supplied the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pa., U.S. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants, including more than 50 percent of those in Europe.
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