Westinghouse Nuclear Services Announces Integration Actions

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Westinghouse Nuclear Services Announces Integration Actions;Company 
to Maintain All Product Lines, Technologies and Services;Moves to 
Reduce Costs, Improve Efficiency With Minimal Employment Impact

PITTSBURGH, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company 
today announced that it would consolidate its controlled radiological 
sites in Chattanooga, Tenn., Spartanburg, S.C., and Windsor, Conn., 
into an existing site in Madison, Pa. 

This move, and others described below, is designed to reduce costs 
and improve operating efficiencies throughout the company's nuclear 
field services, engineering and repair and replacement services 
businesses. Additionally, Westinghouse said the consolidation actions 
in these areas would result in the loss over the next 18 months of 
about 60 of the Company's 2,000 Nuclear Services jobs in the United 
States and four positions in Europe. (Worldwide, Westinghouse employs 
approximately 9,300). 

In the U.S., Westinghouse announced that it would:  

-- Consolidate the radiological shop services, equipment, maintenance 
and   

storage areas now operating at service centers in Windsor,   

Spartanburg and Chattanooga into an existing service center and   

controlled radiological area in Madison, Pa. 

-- Consolidate the nuclear repair and replacement activities now in   


Windsor into an existing and similar facility in Cheswick, Pa. 

-- Establish a nuclear field services testing, training and 
qualification   

center in the Windsor area. 

-- Maintain a regional presence for non-radiological field service   

activities in Spartanburg and Chattanooga. 

-- Maintain the existing engineering services capabilities in 
Chattanooga   

and Windsor. 

-- Transfer the radiological materials capability now at Windsor to 
an   

existing laboratory at the Westinghouse Science and Technology   

Department in Churchill, Pa. 

In Europe, the company announced that it would transfer the 
radiological storage activities now located in Ladenburg, Germany to 
an existing site in Nivelles, Belgium. 

Charles W. Pryor, Jr., president and CEO of Westinghouse, said the 
consolidation actions announced today will enable Westinghouse to 
maintain all existing product lines and technologies.  "The end 
result of these actions will be a more efficient, cost effective and 
integrated services operation that will be better equipped than ever 
to serve our U.S. and European customers," he said.  "We are 
eliminating redundancies while leveraging the best practices and 
technologies found within each of our existing locations. 
Additionally, we will maintain significant regional engineering and 
field services capabilities." 

Westinghouse Electric Company is wholly owned by BNFL.  Headquartered 
in Monroeville, Pa., Westinghouse offers a wide range of nuclear 
plant products and services to utilities around the world, including 
fuel, spent fuel management, service and maintenance, instrumentation 
and control, and advanced nuclear plant designs.  Westinghouse 
supplied the world's first commercial nuclear power plant in 1957 and 
has designed the world's largest installed base of operating nuclear 
power plants. 

BNFL is a leading specialist in nuclear technology and a global 
supplier of nuclear fuel, products and services.  Currently, around a 
third of BNFL's sales comes from the Westinghouse Electric business 
which manufactures fuel and services nuclear reactors around the 
world; a quarter comes from the recycling of UK and overseas 
customers' fuel; a further quarter of sales comes from operating the 
UK's Magnox power stations.  The remainder of BNFL's business is in 
waste management and decommissioning, which is expected to grow 
significantly in the years ahead. 

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