Toshiba Corp. (6502) hired JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) to study a potential sale of a 49 percent stake in nuclear- plant designer Westinghouse Electric Corp., the Sunday Express reported, without saying where it got the information.

Toshiba bought Westinghouse from British Nuclear Fuels Plc for almost $3 billion in 2006, the newspaper said.

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