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Westinghouse Awarded Long-Term Inspection Contract for Switzerland's Leibstadt Nuclear Station
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Westinghouse Electric Co. and its subsidiary WesDyne International today
announced that, after an extensive public tender process, it has been
awarded a long-term contract for reactor pressure vessel nozzle inspection
at Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) in Switzerland. The six-year contract
includes an option for four additional years. WesDyne is the nondestructive
inspection branch of Westinghouse Electric Co.

The contract’s scope includes qualification of the KKL mechanized ultrasonic
inspection system using a state-of-the-art phased array technique and yearly
inspections of eight different nozzle types — 56 total — with each nozzle
having up to three welds. A total of 127 welds will be inspected over the
project’s duration. Westinghouse has been performing these inspections at
KKL over the past 10 years.

This contract will be executed primarily out of Westinghouse’s facility in
Mannheim and supported by an international team of experts from WesDyne.
According to Westinghouse, this contract award is seen by the company as a
confirmation of the great success of work already performed and KKL’s high
level of satisfaction with that work.

"We are absolutely delighted to have won this contract. We are so pleased
that we will be able to continue our trusting, fruitful cooperation with
Leibstadt, delivering inspections to the highest standards," said Dr. Norbert
Haspel, Westinghouse vice president and managing director, Central Europe.

"We are pleased to continue cooperation with Westinghouse to provide
Leibstadt with their proven combination of safety-focused inspection
techniques and experience-driven duration times that will maximize our
plant's availability," said Michael Kessler, Mechanical Engineering
Department manager, KKL.

WesDyne is a leading supplier of mechanized nondestructive examination
(NDE) products for all inspection needs worldwide, providing turnkey and
one-off-type solutions with a focus on the nuclear market. WesDyne’s
expertise spans all aspects of remote and mechanized inspections, from
problem analysis and solutions generation to development and
manufacturing to field deployment of personnel and equipment. Inspection
capabilities cover all key NDE areas such as ultrasonic, visual, eddy current,
magnetic particle, dye penetrant and X-ray.

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation ,
is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and a leading supplier of
nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world.
Westinghouse supplied the world’s first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in
Shippingport, Pennsylvania, U.S. Today, Westinghouse technology is the
basis for approximately one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants,
including more than 50 percent of those in Europe.
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