Cranberry Township-based Westinghouse Electric Co. recently signed a contract with the Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility in South Carolina to deliver advanced fuel to the facility’s Boiling Water Reactor (BWR).
“We are very pleased to strengthen further our long-standing partnership with U.S. utilities and to bring back the most advanced BWR fuel to America’s reactors,” Tarik Choho, Westinghouse president of nuclear fuel, said. “We are confident this milestone will leverage the successful performance we have had with our European customers in the BWR market so far.”
Under the contract, Westinghouse will establish TRITON11 manufacturing capabilities for future deliveries. The TRITON11 fuel assembly has a BWR fuel design.
The contract renews and builds on the companies’ previous BWR fuel and engineering services partnership.
This is the first time Westinghouse has entered the U.S. BWR fuel market since 2016. Westinghouse previously delivered the Optima2 fuel design to utilities within the United States.
Westinghouse supplies nuclear fuel for a variety of nuclear reactor types. It has fuel fabrication facilities in Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. The company’s goal is to deliver innovative fuel technologies that meet its customers’ needs for accident-tolerant products, diversity of supply, increased operational flexibility and efficiency, and lower fuel-cycle costs.