Westinghouse Celebrates Grand Opening of New Facility in Chattannooga, Tennessee

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company celebrated
the grand opening of its first United States Boiling Water Reactor (BWR)
Training Center and its second WEC Welding Institute on August 20, 2009 in
Chattanooga, Tenn. The grand opening celebration, attended by 225
Westinghouse employees, BWR customers and invited guests, included a
ribbon-cutting ceremony, followed by site tours which featured 18 BWR tooling
exhibits and welding demonstrations.

Nick Liparulo, senior vice president, Nuclear Services, cut the ribbon on the
refueling bridge over the training center's full scale BWR mockup with the
assistance of Shigenori Shiga, senior vice president and chief coordination
officer, Westinghouse Coordination Office; David Howell, vice president, Field
Services; Wayne Bentley, vice president, BWR Operations & Growth; and Bruce
Phares, director, BWR Reactor Services.

In commenting on the new facility, Mr. Liparulo said: "Our investment here in
Chattanooga is reflective of both the scope of the nuclear renaissance and our
ongoing commitment to meet the diverse needs of our growing customer base. We
see an exciting and long-term future for our industry, our company and this
state-of-the-art facility."

The BWR Training Center will be used to train Westinghouse employees,
customers and industry representatives on the safe maintenance and refueling
of boiling water reactors in nuclear power plants. The BWR training facility
is composed of a full-scale BWR cavity with vessel, internals, spent fuel
pool, and refueling bridge; two 33-ton cranes, under-vessel mock-up and 65,000
square feet of shop floor. Combined, the welding institute and the BWR
training facility will provide approximately 50 jobs for the city of
Chattanooga.

The WEC Welding Institute offers a no-cost program that is equipped to train
welders to perform work in both nuclear and non-nuclear plants. Currently, 10
students are enrolled in the program which has the capacity to train and
graduate 288 welders per year. Westinghouse also has a WEC Welding Institute
in Rock Hill, S.C. Together the welding institutes have the capacity to
graduate more than 700 welders a year.

The Chattanooga WEC Welding Institute is equipped with 48 weld booths and
certifies students after they complete an average of five months of hands-on
training. After training, they can take the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) welding qualification exam. Once students pass the exam and
receive certification, they must work for Westinghouse for 2,000 hours. They
have the opportunity to work as apprentices at power plants or at any facility
where Westinghouse is performing welding. Several customers work at the
institute to pre-qualify the students to work during upcoming nuclear plant
outages.

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:
6502), is the world's pioneering nuclear power company and is a leading
supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout
the world. Westinghouse supplied the world's first commercial PWR in 1957 in
Shippingport, Pa. (USA). Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for more
than 40 percent of the world's operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent
of those in the United States. Information about Westinghouse Electric
Company and the AP1000(TM) nuclear power plant is available on the company's
web site at www.westinghousenuclear.com.

SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company

Kathy Szlis of Westinghouse Electric Company, +1-724-722-5160,
szliska@westinghouse.com