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Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory
Company type
Division
Industry
Aerospace
Founded
July 26, 1959; 64 years ago (1959-07-26)
Headquarters
Large, Pennsylvania
,
United States
Key people
John W. Simpson
Sidney Krasik
Frank Cotter (technical director)
Parent
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
The Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory (WANL) was a division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Established in 1959 to develop nuclear space propulsion technologies for the government, the lab was located, for most of its history, in the paradoxically small town of "Large" along Pa. Rte 51, about 13 miles (21 km) south of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA. The site is not far from the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory in West Mifflin, which Westinghouse operated during the same time and later.
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