On April 7, 2008, Progress Energy Florida, St. Petersburg, announced it had authorized Shaw and Westinghouse to purchase long-lead-time materials for up to two AP1000 nuclear reactors for a greenfield plant in Levy County, producing about 1, 100 MW each.

Duke plans to develop the site for two Westinghouse Electric Company AP1000 ( advanced passive ) pressurized water reactors.

* Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 ( AP1000 )

He has been critical of the NRC's decision-making on the proposed Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design and the NRC response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

* Westinghouse Electric Company's AP1000, the first Generation III + reactor to receive final design approval from the U. S.

In December, 2006, China ’ s State Nuclear Power Technology Company selected Westinghouse to provide four new AP1000 nuclear power plants, with the first to come on line in 2013.

He has been critical of the NRC's decision-making on the proposed Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design and the NRC response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

The leaders in national experience with PWRs, offering reactors for export, are the United States ( which offers the passively-safe AP1000, a Westinghouse design, as well as several smaller, modular, passively-safe PWRs, such as the Babcock and Wilcox MPower, and the NuScale MASLWR ), the Russian Federation ( offering both the VVER-1000 and the VVER-1200 for export ), the Republic of France ( offering the AREVA EPR for export ), and Japan ( offering the Mitsubishi Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor for export ); in addition, both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Korea are both noted to be rapidly ascending into the front rank of PWR-constructing nations as well, with the Chinese being engaged in a massive program of nuclear power expansion, and the Koreans currently designing and constructing their second generation of indigenous designs.

The Westinghouse AP1000 (" AP " standing for " Advanced Passive ") uses passive safety components.

Horizon is considering building either Areva EPR or Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at a site to the south of the existing Wylfa station.

On April 9, 2008, Georgia Power Company reached a contract agreement for two AP1000 reactors designed by Westinghouse ( owned by Toshiba ) and the Shaw Group ( Baton Rouge, LA ).

* The NuStart Energy Development, LLC consortium consists of DTE Energy, Duke Energy, EDF International North America, Entergy Nuclear, Exelon Generation, Florida Power & Light Co., Progress Energy, SCANA Corporation, Southern Company, GE Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ), and Westinghouse Electric Company and has chosen the General Electric Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor ( ESBWR ) and the Westinghouse Advanced Passive 1000 ( AP1000, a PWR ) reactor as candidates.

On June 30, 2012, NuStart will disband after completing the standard design engineering work for the Westinghouse AP1000 ® design certification, and conceiving and demonstrating the licensing strategy necessary to develop the first Combined Construction and Operating License ( COL ) from the NRC.

The material submitted to the NRC will serve as the reference COL application for the Westinghouse dual-unit AP1000 reactor design.

The demonstration given by Zworykin sometime in late 1925 or early 1926 — not in 1923, as popular accounts would have it — was far from a success with the Westinghouse management, even though it showed the possibilities inherent in a system based on the Braun tube.

Several large businesses have been located in the region, with the biggest former employer being Westinghouse, now owned by Invensys, whose factory complex lies next to the railway station.

" Westinghouse later commented: " They would have done better using an axe.

He worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation of America and claimed to have been the Reconstruction Engineer for the British Westinghouse Company in India ( the company has no record of him ever working there ), deputy Chief Engineer of the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Company, Railway Engineer of the London Post Office ( Tube ) Railway and Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Aircraft Factory Farnborough during World War I.

Linear induction motors have also been used for launching aircraft, the Westinghouse Electropult system in 1945 was an early example and the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System ( EMALS ) was due to be delivered in 2010.

The R32 Phase II cars ( also re-built by Morrison Knudsen ) have NY Air Brake equipment, Westinghouse Master Controllers, and Stone Safety HVAC units.

They were made by G. W. Bitzer of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, were shown at the Westinghouse Auditorium at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and may have been made for that purpose.

Four manufacturers have been mooted as possible suppliers: Mitsubishi, Atomenergoprojekt, Westinghouse and Areva.

* Hoses have been used in air brake systems ever since the technology was invented by George Westinghouse in 1868.

Such systems have been evaluated by Siemens Westinghouse and Rolls-Royce as a mean to achieve higher operating efficiencies by running the SOFC under pressure.

Westinghouse later offered a compromise to the FCC, offering to have them get the channel 13 license for the proposed KDKA-TV and have them " share " the frequency with WQED.

Westinghouse wouldn't have to wait much longer for its own TV station in Pittsburgh, though.

Either a station-to-station telegraph system, or the Westinghouse air braking system, could have prevented this accident.

The Hall of Fame for Great Americans ( on the National Register of Historic Places ), which was also designed by Stanford White, was established to honor prominent Americans who have had a significant impact on the country's history and includes bronze busts of Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, and George Westinghouse along with many others.

Among the organizers and leaders of UE Local 107 at the Westinghouse South Philadelphia works were several former members of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).< ref > Matles, James J. and Higgins, James, < i > Them and Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union </ i >, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1974, hardcover, ISBN 0-13-913079-9 ; paperback reprint ISBN 0-13-913053-5, chapter 12 </ ref > While foes of UE in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s charged the union with " communist domination ," recent studies Stepan-Norris, Judith, and Zeitlin, Maurice, < i > Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions </ i >, Cambridge University Press, 2003, hardcover ISBN 0-521-70212-6 ; paperback ISBN 0-521-79840-X </ ref > have demonstrated that UE was and remains one of the most democratic U. S. labor unions and that its policies differed markedly from those of the US Communist Party on a number of major issues during those decades.

All five major stations owned by Westinghouse prior to its 1996 acquisition of CBS have used Eyewitness News as their newscast titles at some point in time ; KYW-TV, KPIX, and WJZ-TV continue to do so.

The two Westinghouse four-loop pressurized-water reactors each have an electrical output of over 1, 000 MWe.

Ramaz Upper school students have also succeeded in numerous academic competitions in both the arts and sciences, including the 2004-2005 Siemens Westinghouse Competition and the 2007 NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing.

His calculations indicated that the readily available surplus Westinghouse J46 jet engines would have more than enough power to drive the vehicle to over 400 miles per hour ( 640 km / h ).

Since 1985-86, 45 students have become semifinalists in the Intel Science Talent Search ( until 1998, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search ).

Chaparral is the only school in Arizona to have students win the highest honors at the Siemens Westinghouse Competition and Intel Science Talent Search, two of the most prestigious science competitions in the U. S.

Recently, PC-based control systems, similar to the IECC have been developed and are sold by various signalling contractors, e. g. Westinghouse Rail Systems WESTCAD.

RCA agreed to market the radio equipment manufactured by GE and Westinghouse, and in follow-on agreements, RCA also acquired the radio patents that had been held by Westinghouse and the United Fruit Company.

Orrville has formerly been home to a division of Ingersoll-Rand Company, Volvo Heavy Truck, Crown-Steel, Orrville Bedding, Crystal Casket, Orrville Cottage Creamery, Orrville Milk Condensory, American Weather Seal, Spectrum Brands, Round Top Windows, Swartout Castings, Hagan Control, Mathias and Whitson concrete, Sanderson Cyclone Drill, Novelty Comb company, Military Stock Yards, Pennsylvania Rail Road repair center and depot, Coppers Wood Preservative Yards, Orrville Products, and Westinghouse.

* 1988 – closes the East Pittsburgh plant, which had once been the primary Westinghouse manufacturing facility

In the Republic of Korea, Westinghouse has been involved in the construction of new nuclear plants since the 1970s, and is now helping to bring a new plant on line at essentially the rate of one per year.

Westinghouse had been operating an alternating current lighting plant in Great Barrington, Massachusetts since 1886.

His father had been sent to Scotland to evaluate the feasibility of siting a Westinghouse factory in Clydeside.

In Japan, no clear distinction of the interurban from the ordinal heavy rail has been settled, but most of the major private railway companies, which now play important role in public transportation, had been influenced greatly by the systems of U. S. interurbans, such as motors and controllers of General Electric, Westinghouse Electric, air brakes of Westinghouse Air Brake Company, trucks of J. G. Brill Company and Baldwin Locomotive Works, just to name some.

Westinghouse built new studios at 1170 Soldiers Field Road in the Allston section of Boston to house both the radio and television stations, with the new facility opening on June 17 of that year ( parts of the new facility containing the master control and TV transmitter had already been in use ).

Before joining NASA, he had been with Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Sharon, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland for thirteen years.

Frank Conrad, a Westinghouse engineer, had been making transmissions from 8XK since 1916 that included music programming.

Under the terms of the CBS / Westinghouse deal, CBS sold controlling interest in KCNC to Westinghouse's broadcasting division, Group W. Later in 1995, CBS and Westinghouse merged, making KCNC a CBS owned-and-operated station, the second time in the station's history that channel 4 has been owned by a major network.