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'''The Babcock & Wilcox Company''' (B&W)  is a U.S.-based company that provides design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W's boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed capacity in over 90 countries around the world. A reactor from B&W was destroyed by a nuclear meltdown in the Three Mile Island accident. During [[World War II]], over half of the US Navy fleet was powered by Babcock & Wilcox boilers.

The company has its headquarters in Charlotte, [[North Carolina]]. It has major operations in Lynchburg, [[Virginia]]; Barberton, [[Ohio]]; Euclid, [[Ohio]]; Lancaster, Ohio; West Point, [[Mississippi]]; Mount Vernon, [[Indiana]]; Oak Ridge, [[Tennessee]]; Erwin, [[Tennessee]]; Amarillo, [[Texas]]; Cambridge, Ontario; Esbjerg, [[Denmark]]; and Straubing, [[Germany]]. B&W also has joint major joint venture companies in Beijing, [[China]] and Pune, [[India]].<ref>http://pdf.secdatabase.com/917/0001193125-12-089188.pdf</ref>

B&W employs approximately 12,700 people, in addition to approximately 10,400 joint venture employees.<ref>http://pdf.secdatabase.com/917/0001193125-12-089188.pdf</ref>

The company was founded in 1867 by Stephen Wilcox and George Babcock as Babcock, Wilcox & Company to manufacture and market Wilcox’s patented water tube boiler. B&W’s list of innovations and firsts include the world’s first installed utility boiler (1881); manufacture of boilers to power New York City’s first subway (1902); first pulverized coal power plant (1918); design and manufacture of components for the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine (1953-55); the first supercritical pressure coal-fired boiler (1957); design and supply of reactors for the first U.S. built nuclear-powered surface ship, the NS Savannah (1961).<ref>''Steam/its generation and use'', 41st Edition</ref>

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