Toshiba eyeing 3.5-fold sales rise in atomic power business

Toshiba eyeing 3.5-fold sales rise in atomic power business

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida tells a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 8 that the company has set an eye toward a 3.5-fold sales increase in its nuclear power generation business to some 700 billion yen by 2015. The announcement came the day after Toshiba made an agreement with British Nuclear Fuels PLC to acquire its U.S. nuclear power plant arm, Westinghouse Electric Co.

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