Westinghouse shakes up prospects for West Coast nuclear power

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Westinghouse Electric Co. sees something in the West Coast that isn’‍t all that obvious to others: a nuclear future.
When the Cranberry-based company announced last month that it has started the federal approval process for an AP1000 reactor that can function in areas of high earthquake risk, Rita Bowser, Westinghouse’‍s lead on the effort, said the firm’‍s main target is the U.S. West Coast.
For all practical purposes, that means California — a state with three strikes against new nuclear power plants at the moment.
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