Westinghouse Electric has gone nuclear. The company provides design work and start-up help for new nuclear power plants and makes many of the components. Westinghouse Electric manufactures and supplies the commercial fuel products needed to run the plants, and it offers training, engineering, maintenance, and quality management services. The firm also has research and technology operations. Its customers include utilities and industrial companies worldwide. Westinghouse Electric, which is owned by Japan-based conglomerate Toshiba, estimates that almost 50% of nuclear power plants around the world and about 60% of US plants are based on the company's technology.