VASTERAS (Sweden), April 28 - Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the expansion of its nuclear fuel factory, situated in Vasteras, Sweden, in response to growing demand for nuclear fuel supply diversification for VVER-1000 reactors in Ukraine and other European countries.

"The investment finances additional production facilities, fuel engineering work, as well as the procurement of additional process and assembly equipment for manufacturing the fuel," Westinghouse said in a press release on Thursday.