Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB

Westinghouse is a pioneer and world leader in nuclear technology. The company was founded in the USA by the entrepreneur George Westinghouse and is today a global company with approximately 9,000 employees in 19 countries.

Westinghouse Electric Sweden is the Westinghouse Group's competence and development center for boiling water reactor technology and at the same time operates in the areas of Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Automation, Nuclear Services and Nuclear Power Plants. In addition, WesDyne Sweden AB is included as a wholly owned subsidiary of Swedish Westinghouse.

The Swedish nuclear business started a bit cautiously already in the 1950s within the company ASEA (later ABB) but then gained momentum in the 1960s when the company developed its very own boiling water reactor design (BWR), sold the design to customers and began building reactors. In addition, a nuclear fuel factory was built in Västerås, which was inaugurated in 1966 and which would support the Swedish and Finnish reactors when they were ready. The company's nuclear power program had grown enormously in a short time, and in 1969 the company ASEA Atom was formed. 

In 2000, the company, then known as ABB Atom, was acquired and integrated into the American company Westinghouse Electric Company, a world-leading company in the nuclear power industry with a focus on pressurized water reactors (PWR). The Swedish company then became Westinghouse Electric Sweden and today has  about  900 employees, primarily in  Västerås and Täby. 

Today's Westinghouse, which also includes ASEA Atom, built 14 nuclear power plants in the Nordic countries in less than 20 years, 12 in Sweden and 2 in Finland. Today, eight of these reactors are still in operation and the fuel plant, which was inaugurated more than 50 years ago, supplies more nuclear fuel than ever, to three different reactor types - BWR, PWR and VVER.