Westinghouse Electric Co has officially opened its European Pump and Motor Maintenance and Repair Centre in Nivelles, Belgium, for nuclear energy customers in Europe. The new €6 million Westinghouse state-of-the-art workshop has been designed to perform work on multiple pumps and motors in parallel. It has easy truck access, a large-capacity crane (63T), and is […]
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is helping India to support the expansion of safe, low-carbon nuclear energy
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is helping lead this week’s 50-member, U.S. nuclear industry delegation to India to support the expansion of safe, low-carbon nuclear energy to increase electricity supplies in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Danny Roderick, GEH’s senior vice president of nuclear plant projects, will serve as co-leader of the delegation in meetings […]
Problems Plague Russia’s Nuclear Power Ambitions
“The Russian Nuclear Industry: Status and Prospects,” a February report from a Canadian-based think tank, Centre for International Governance Innovation, examines a revival of Russia’s Soviet-era plans for a massive nuclear expansion within the current state of the country’s nuclear power industry. It concludes that although the industry has been greeted with renewed funding and […]