Westinghouse Selects Serco to Support AP1000 Generic Design Assessment

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, January 13 - Westinghouse has selected Serco as its lead nuclear safety adviser in the
UK, to support the progress of the AP1000TM reactor design though the Generic
Design Assessment (GDA) process.

The AP1000 is one of two designs which recently entered the fourth and
final step of the GDA process - which is scheduled to conclude in June 2011.
The regulators confirmed at the end of Step 3 that no "show-stopper" issues
had been identified for the reactor design, but identified that a substantial
body of detailed work remained to be completed during Step 4.

Serco bring a wealth of experience in UK nuclear assurance and in the
development of safety cases for nuclear plants and processes. Coupled with
Westinghouse's in-depth knowledge of the AP1000 reactor design, this
capability will be invaluable in meeting the challenging demands of Step 4.

Mike Tynan, Westinghouse UK CEO, said: "I am delighted to welcome Serco
on board as a key part of Westinghouse's efforts to deliver GDA success for
the AP1000. I am confident that their support to us will be invaluable as we
work to deliver the challenging work programme ahead of us in Step 4. GDA is
a key step to our ultimate goal of building AP1000s in the UK, and seeing
them fuelled and serviced from this country. Our choice of Serco - a major
UK-based organisation - is also consistent with our "Buy Where We Build"
approach of using local companies as far as it is practical to do so."

The selection of Serco for this key role in support of the AP1000 GDA
work is another indication of Westinghouse's commitment to delivering to the
regulators everything which they need in order to give a meaningful GDA
approval to the reactor design in 2011. The news follows the recent
appointment of Simon Marshall to the new position of GDA Project Director.

Simon Marshall commented: "We recognise that Step 4 of the GDA process
will be the most complex and challenging, and that both the regulators and
ourselves are working to tight deadlines. We have been highly impressed with
Serco's insightful knowledge to date, and we are looking forward to working
with them on this very important programme."

Notes to Editors:

Westinghouse Electric Company, a group company of Toshiba Corporation, is
the world's pioneering nuclear power company and is a leading supplier of
nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world.

Westinghouse supplied the world's first PWR in 1957 in Shippingport,
Pennsylvania. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately
half of the world's operating nuclear plants.

China will build four AP1000s - two on the Sanmen site and two on the
Haiyang site. Construction on the first of these plants, at Sanmen, began in
February 2008.

Westinghouse has also signed three contracts to build six AP1000 nuclear
power plants in the United States. The AP1000 has been identified as the new
plant technology of choice for no fewer than a total of 10 additional nuclear
plants that could be built in the United States.

The AP1000 has passed all the steps for compliance with European Utility
Requirements. In addition, the AP1000 is the only Generation III+ plant to
receive design certification by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The six companies participating in the licensing group are E.ON UK,
Electrabel-SUEZ, Endesa Generacion, Iberdrola, RWE npower and Vattenfall.
(E.ON UK and RWE npower are now working jointly as Horizon Nuclear Power).

In the UK, Westinghouse runs the Springfields site in Preston, Lancashire
(where around 1500 people are employed), on behalf of the Nuclear
Decommissioning Authority. The vast majority of the UK's nuclear fuel has
been made at Springfields over the past 50 years.

For more information on Westinghouse, visit:
www.Westinghousenuclear.com

For further information contact: Adrian Bull, Head of Stakeholder Relations, +44(0)1772-842166 (Office), +44(0)7894-836553 (mobile), bullaj at westinghouse.com