Watts Bar Completes its Premier Pool-to-Pad Canister Loading Campaign, Successfully Overcoming its Subgrade Liquefaction Challenge
Watts Bar Team in Front of the New ISFSI Pad with Loaded HI-STORM FW Casks

Watts Bar Completes its Premier Pool-to-Pad Canister Loading Campaign, Successfully Overcoming its Subgrade Liquefaction Challenge

We are pleased to report the safe and successful completion of the first cask loading campaign at Watts Bar, home of TVA's newest PWR located on the Tennessee River.

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Making Decommissioning Safe and Swift
Ariel View of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Station

Making Decommissioning Safe and Swift

We applaud Entergy’s November 8, 2016 announcement to accelerate the decommissioning of Vermont Yankee by several decades. This pioneering move by Entergy should be a pace setter for the nuclear industry and welcome news for the people of Vermont.

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Holtec and Ukraine’s Government Discuss Building a Business Partnership in Nuclear Energy as Energoatom Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
Holtec’s President and CEO, Dr. Kris Singh (Left) and Energoatom’s President, Yuriy Nedashkovsky, Reprise the Progress of the CISF Project (Right)

Holtec and Ukraine’s Government Discuss Building a Business Partnership in Nuclear Energy as Energoatom Celebrates its 20th Anniversary

Ukraine’s CISF, with Holtec serving as the prime contractor, is located in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The site was formally authorized after extensive consultations by the country’s Council of Ministers on October 5, 2016.

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Joint Development Agreement Signed with Mitsubishi Electric of Japan and its U.S. Subsidiary Solidifying Their Role in SMR-160
Attending the Signing Ceremony are (Left to Right): Mr. Koichi Orito, MELCO Group Senior VP of Energy and Industrial Systems; Dr. William Woodward, Holtec Senior VP of International Projects; and Mr. Gilbert Remley, MEPPI Nuclear Systems Department Manager

Joint Development Agreement Signed with Mitsubishi Electric of Japan and its U.S. Subsidiary Solidifying Their Role in SMR-160

We are pleased to announce that our Memorandum of Understanding entered over a year ago evolved into an agreement which formalizes the design authority role of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and its U.S. subsidiary, Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. over instrumentation and control systems for the SMR-160.

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Recruitment of the Local Workforce Set to Pick Up Pace

With the opening of the manufacturing plants at the Holtec Technology Campus only a few months away, our Human Resources Department is gearing up to accelerate our personnel recruitment drive with an ambitious goal for work force diversity.

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Industry’s First Large Rectangular Cask for Reactor-Related Waste Passes Successive 30 Foot “Free Drop” Tests Without Any Breach of Its Containment Boundary
Crew Setting up the CG Over Corner Drop Test

Industry’s First Large Rectangular Cask for Reactor-Related Waste Passes Successive 30 Foot “Free Drop” Tests Without Any Breach of Its Containment Boundary

A quarter scale model of the cask was subjected to three successive punishing drops in three discrete orientations in accordance with the test plan reviewed by the USNRC and the Client.

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Strong Support for the HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility in New Mexico

We are pleased to report that the State of New Mexico has approved the land sale option allowing Holtec International to purchase 1,000 acres of land from the Eddy Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA). The land acquisition option paves the way for Holtec to build a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) in Southeast New Mexico.

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Symbols of South Camden’s Renaissance Rising on the Riverfront

We are pleased to note that the silhouettes of the buildings on the Holtec Technology Campus stand as monuments to Camden’s renaissance to the motorists on the Walt Whitman Bridge, Interstate 676 and from Penn’s Landing across the river.

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“Holtec Arabia” Launched at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Holtec Advisory Council in Warrendale, Pennsylvania
Dr. Kris Singh (Left) and Dr. Saeed Almutawa (Right) Sign the Joint Venture Agreement During the Holtec Advisory Council Meeting on August 3, 2016

“Holtec Arabia” Launched at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Holtec Advisory Council in Warrendale, Pennsylvania

Senior officers of Atomic and Automation International signed an agreement with Holtec International to launch a joint venture to leverage Holtec’s technology assets to aid in the region’s industrialization.

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