KWU =Kraftwerke Union AG 联合电力公司[西德]
- All gas turbines for the 60Hz market, North America and parts of Asia, are now leaving KWU via Milwaukee. Meanwhile, considerable improvement efforts have been made over the past decade in the German plants.
- One KWU physicist, panicked by news reports, ripped out his vegetable garden and scraped off the topsoil to protect his family.
- Because of the design differences, KWU concluded that its own plants don't need repairs.
- Meanwhile, some 15 KWU radiologists were roving southern Germany and measuring fallout.
- At KWU, finely calibrated radiation detectors inside buildings went off as employees tracked in fallout on their shoes.
- Politics aside, KWU's most important challenge now is to find new orders.
- The company scored a major victory earlier this month, when voters in the German state of Hesse ousted the governing anti-nuclear coalition of Social Democrats and Greens; that eliminated a closure threat to local KWU plants.
- KWU is discussing a potential $500 million consulting contract in China.
- A Turkish-German consortium led by KWU, Siemens' power-generating equipment business, has won a breakthrough turnkey contract to build a gas-fired power station in the Aktyubinsk region of Kazakhstan.
- In a kind of sleuthing, engineers ran the few clues available through computers to guess what happened and ponder its implications for KWU.