Westinghouse plans to build 10 large-scale nuclear power reactors in the US with construction to begin by 2030, interim chief executive officer Dan Sumner told president Donald Trump at a roundtable in Pittsburgh on 15 July.

Westinghouse’s AP1000 reactor generates enough electricity to power more than 750,000 homes, according to the company. Building 10 of these reactors would drive $75bn (€64bn) of economic value across the US and $6bn in Pennsylvania, where Westinghouse is based in Cranberry Township, Sumner said.

The Westinghouse executive laid out the plan to Trump during a conference on energy and artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.