Westinghouse Lands Contract for Argentina Nuclear Power Plant

Cranberry Township-based Westinghouse Electric Co. has been awarded its first large contract in Argentina.

The contract signed with Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NA-SA) will provide engineering, specialty pipe cutting and welding services to replace a steam generator at Argentina’s Embalse Nuclear Power Plant, according to an announcement Thursday.

Westinghouse said the work through its subsidiary, PCI Energy Services, LLC, is part of an overall refurbishment program to extend the power plant’s life up to an additional 30 years.

Although the engineering scope of work is underway, major site activities are expected to be executed during 2014.

Westinghouse supplied the world's first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport and is now a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. 

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