The new company started operation in March 2008, with the primary mission of marketing and promoting advanced boiling water (ABWR) nuclear power plants and providing support for related services.
As this business develops, Toshiba also 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. The new office will be located just outside Washington DC.
In the US, major utilities have announced plans to build over 30 new nuclear power plants in coming years. Toshiba and Westinghouse, a Toshiba Group company, are responding to this trend by promoting marketing activities to win orders for both ABWRs and AP-1000 pressurized water reactors (PWR) and their related systems.
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, allowing Toshiba Group to offer its customers optimized OP&M services.
Toshiba also plans to share with Westinghouse construction management expertise that it has cultivated through nuclear power facility projects in Japan, and to reinforce its business structure to provide support for both BWR and PWR systems.
