Westinghouse Installs Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing Chamber

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has completed the installation of its semi-anechoic electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) chamber to support the company's Equipment Qualification group at its New Stanton, Pa., facility.

The addition of the semi-anechoic chamber will provide EMC test capabilities to ensure that instrumentation and control, electronic and electrical equipment meets required safety and electromagnetic compatibility compliance requirements for nuclear facilities.

"The addition of this new EMC laboratory enhances our world-class equipment qualification test facility in New Stanton to meet the ongoing needs of our customers," said David Howell, senior vice president of Westinghouse Nuclear Automation.  "Having this test capability onsite will allow our equipment qualification engineers to work closely with our designers to ensure that products are designed from the beginning to be compliant with the latest industry standards."

The new chamber and associated EMC test capabilities complement the company's existing suite of test capabilities, including seismic testing to simulate earthquakes, and environmental testing to simulate nuclear facility environments.

As a result of this addition, Westinghouse will have the capability to perform electromagnetic fields and conducted emissions, and electromagnetic fields and conducted susceptibility tests at the New Stanton facility.

Westinghouse currently employs the qualified staff needed to perform EMC testing, and in the future, the company anticipates offering commercial EMC testing services.

Use of the EMC test facility for nuclear facility equipment type testing will begin in the fall of 2010. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held in the near future.

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation (TKY:6502), is the world's pioneering nuclear energy company and is 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, Pa.  Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world's operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the United States.

SOURCE Westinghouse Electric Company