Westinghouse Electric Co. with headquarters in US, expected to supply nuclear reactors to India, would transfer technologies to local firms and would also work closely with industries here.

Westinghouse Vice- President - Government Affairs (Europe), Mr Fernando Naredo said "We will be transferring our technologies to the local industries and even expand them."

He further added, "We buy and build reactors and we give the technology to locals and buy from them, that is our philosophy throughout the world for the last 30 years".

The company is expected to supply AP-1000 type of 1100 MW nuclear reactors to India. Westinghouse is building AP-1000 twin reactors, first of its kind, in China.

A number of initiatives are being taken by Westinghouse to work with the industries which are already working closely with Nuclear Power Corporation of India.

Mr Fernando said "We are initially buying from South Korea where we had transferred our technology and now we may go with local companies for production of components." He added, endorsing India's capacity to excel, "India has developed such a strong and impressive programme on their own and we will definitely work with the existing infrastructure and even expand them."