With Westinghouse, US's Nuclear Champion Follows an Old Playbook

For all the buzz of small modular reactors and artificial intelligence hyperscalers, the rebirth of the US nuclear power industry looks increasingly old-school. Westinghouse Electric Co. is reportedly set to soon file publicly for a $50 billion initial public offering, and it is no startup. Westinghouse supplied the reactor for America’s first large-scale civilian nuclear power station and traces back to 1886.