Westinghouse Avoids Billions of Metric Tons of CO2 as Fuel Facility Completes Record 100,000 Assemblies
Westinghouse
Electric Company today announced that the company’s Columbia Fuel
Fabrication Facility completed its 100,000th nuclear fuel assembly,
representing enormous savings in carbon emissions and setting a world
record for pressurized water reactor (PWR) fuel assembly fabrication and
performance. About 10 percent of all U.S. electricity comes from
Westinghouse nuclear fuel safely manufactured at its Columbia site.
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Westinghouse President and CEO Danny Roderick with Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility employees and 100,000th fuel assembly. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Our world leaders have been meeting in Paris to discuss necessary
carbon emission reductions at COP21
and the answers are right here in places like Columbia, S.C., where the
fuel we make for the world’s safest operating fleet are saving this
planet every day. The fact is that energy generated with 100,000
Westinghouse nuclear fuel assemblies avoids about 7.3 billion metric
tons of carbon dioxide emissions if that same amount of energy was
produced with natural gas, or 12.7 billion metric tons if produced with
coal,” said Danny Roderick, Westinghouse president and chief executive
officer.
“We are proud of our environmental stewardship and the employees who
made it happen. Since 1969, our employees in Columbia, S.C., have been
creating value for customers and contributing to a healthier planet
through the work they do every day. The Columbia site produces fuel and
fuel-related products and services for 13 countries and has been
recognized and awarded numerous occasions for its commitment to safety
by the National Safety Council,” said José Emeterio Gutiérrez,
Westinghouse senior vice president, Nuclear Fuel and Components
Manufacturing.
Westinghouse PWR nuclear fuel has the highest performance reliability
record in the U.S. with an overall 96 percent reliability rate globally
through November 2015. Westinghouse is a leading supplier of nuclear
fuel for PWRs, including VVER reactors; boiling water reactors; and
Advanced Gas Reactors worldwide, with manufacturing locations around the
world. Westinghouse also manufactures and delivers fuel-handling
equipment and cranes, and large nuclear components.
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.
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