The sale of the bankrupt US nuclear technology company Westinghouse to the financial services firm Brookfield Business Partners has been completed as previously announced in January 2018. The transaction has become effective and enables Westinghouse to successfully emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection file submission, which was submitted in March 2017 by Westinghouse's former parent company Toshiba. Toshiba had been seeking a buyer for more than a year.
Westinghouse is in charge of all AP1000 nuclear projects worldwide, including four in the United States (two units at VC Summer in South Carolina and two at Vogtle, in Georgia), and four in China (two at Sanmen and two at Haiyang). Toshiba purchased Westinghouse in 2006 from British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL), expecting a significant growth of the global nuclear power generation and a 130 GW growth of the global nuclear capacity between 2006 and 2020. However, only a fourth of this figure was achieved between 2006 and 2017 (+28 GW), which means that Westinghouse's growth potential was not that high.
