6 Mar (NucNet): Toshiba Corporation of Japan has established a new
company in the US for marketing and promoting advanced boiling water
(ABWR) nuclear power plants and providing support for related services.
The company, Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corporation, started operation this month and is to be based in a new office just outside Washington, DC.
As the business develops, Toshiba plans to expand the scope of the new company's operations to provide licensing and extensive engineering support related to construction of future nuclear power plants, including plant design and procurement.
In the US, major utilities have announced plans to build more than 30 new nuclear power plants in coming years, Toshiba said in a statement today. Toshiba and Westinghouse, a Toshiba Group company, are responding to this by preparing to win orders for both ABWRs and pressurised water reactors (AP-1000s) and their related systems, the statement said.
The new company will also be a vehicle for Toshiba and Westinghouse to exchange know-how on their latest advances in technologies for operation and maintenance (OP&M) of existing plants.
Related reports in the NucNet database (available to subscribers)
Toshiba To Help With Two New South Texas Project Units (World Nuclear Review No. 32, 10 August 2007)
Toshiba Completes Acquisition Of Westinghouse (World Nuclear Review No. 42, 20 October 2006)
