When federal environmental laws got in Westinghouse's way, the company walked away from the contract.
They include French nuclear group Areva, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and reactor builder Westinghouse.
Westinghouse has designed half the world's existing reactors, and it is already active in China.
ECONOMIST: Selling Westinghouse is lucrative but controversial
And it argues that Westinghouse's Asian ambitions are unacceptably risky for a company owned by taxpayers.
ECONOMIST: Selling Westinghouse is lucrative but controversial
It is the AP 1000 reactor, a pressurized water reactor, sold by Westinghouse Electric Co.
Both Areva and Westinghouse are said to be looking at joint bids with separate Chinese developers.
Many firms in Europe and the United States set them up, including Westinghouse and Hewlett-Packard.
But Brown, working with Edison, got three used Westinghouse generators through a dealer in Boston.
Before answering these questions, it helps to understand how Westinghouse first got into such a mess.
"He lives by the Code, " says longtime friend Daniel Ritchie, former chief of Westinghouse Broadcasting.
But like most big conglomerates, Westinghouse lost sight of what it had set out to achieve.
He made his name as a turnaround artist by chopping up a hemorrhaging Westinghouse in the mid-1990s.
Edison mounted a legal challenge, filing 11 suits that claimed that Westinghouse had infringed on his patents.
Grumman (number 10) was absorbed into Northrop, as was Westinghouse (number 11) and Litton Industries (number 13).
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Although the consortium includes Westinghouse, a subsidiary of Toshiba of Japan, most of the technology is Korean.
Low costs are a big draw for Tom Nguyen, executive vice president of strategic operations at Westinghouse.
Steinway, blue jeans peddler Levi Strauss, real estate wheeler-dealer Donald Trump and electrical industry pioneer George Westinghouse.
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The old Westinghouse first developed bar codes in 1929 for sorting electricity bills (but they were never used that way).
"You can't order a part from Westinghouse or General Electric that is 100 years old, " Mr. Jacob said.
In 1996 Struble, a midlevel executive at then-CBS-owner Westinghouse, was ordered to evaluate the outlook for digital radio.
The NRC still hasn't signed off on Westinghouse's improvements, though Southern and Westinghouse say they expect approval next year.
They argue that there is more money to be made by hanging on to Westinghouse than by selling it.
ECONOMIST: Selling Westinghouse is lucrative but controversial
City schools get used computers from Westinghouse, which runs WIPP for the feds.
Jack Welch boosted General Electric's market capitalisation by 4, 500% at a time when its old rival, Westinghouse, was disintegrating.
Until RCA became the sole owner of NBC in 1932, GE owned the company along with RCA and Westinghouse.
But Brown, working with Edison, got three used Westinghouse generators through a dealer.
And although the success of Westinghouse's strategy is still not assured, the leap into broadcasting looks more plausible now.
Westinghouse Electric Co. has used students from the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M.
Westinghouse's bits and pieces have ended up in good hands, and Mr Reynolds has fetched impressive prices for them.
We can go to Thorium, we can go to the new Westinghouse designers, we can go to the GE designs.
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