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Westinghouse Electric Company is an American multinational nuclear energy enterprise headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. Its commercial mandate is to design, manufacture, and service nuclear reactors, fabricate nuclear fuel, and provide specialized engineering and decommissioning services to nuclear power plants globally, notably through its generation-III+ AP1000 pressurized water reactor. Originally founded on January 8, 1886, by inventor George Westinghouse as the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, the company pioneered commercial alternating current (AC) electrical systems and later built the world's first commercial pressurized water reactor at Shippingport, Pennsylvania, in 1957.