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Westinghouse is in talks with US officials and industry partners about deploying 10 large nuclear reactors to meet the goals of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, which aim to unleash an American atomic energy renaissance. The Pennsylvania-based nuclear developer is one of a handful of western companies capable of designing and building large reactors, which typically have capacity to generate about 1,000MW of electricity, enough to power more than 500,000 homes. Dan Sumner, Westinghouse interim chief executive, said the company was “uniquely positioned” to deliver the president’s agenda because it had an approved reactor design, a viable supply chain and recent experience of building two of its AP1000 reactors in Georgia. Westinghouse, which is jointly owned by private equity group Brookfield and uranium miner Cameco, has enjoyed success with its AP1000 reactor, a pressurised water reactor operating at several locations in the US and China.
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