Greater Pittsburgh invented the commercial nuclear power industry and we remain a global leader. Forty percent of the world's existing reactors are based on technology developed in the Pittsburgh region by the Westinghouse Electric Company, still growing and headquartered here today.

The world’s first nuclear power plant for peacetime energy production was in Greater Pittsburgh. As orders for new nuclear power plants increase in the near future, so will the need for providers of key products and services, expanding opportunities for supply chain companies.

The Pittsburgh region has a high concentration of nuclear engineers, a growing presence of supply chain companies, and is the location of the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory – a major federal nuclear technology laboratory – which, in combination with Bechtel Plant Machinery makes Pittsburgh the home of the nuclear Navy.