Westinghouse expands UK supply chain for new reactors

MoUs have been signed with William Cook Cast Products, Trillium Flow Technology, Curtiss-Wright Controls (UK), Boccard UK, Bendalls Engineering and Sheffield Forgemasters.

Westinghouse said the agreements provide these companies with the potential to supply key reactor components, including valves, pumps, actuators, mechanical electrical piping and instrument modules, pressure vessels, tanks, heat exchangers and piping and cast and forged steel components.

Westinghouse - now owned by Canada's Brookfield and Cameco - said the agreements "bolster its local supply chain to support the UK's ambitious goal of increasing nuclear generation by up to 24 GW by 2050".

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