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Holtec’s HI-STORM FW Dry Cask Storage System Exceeds Expectations at TVA’s Sequoyah
Photo Left: Loaded HI-STORM FW Dry Storage Cask, Containing 37 Spent Fuel Assemblies Staged for Transport to the ISFSI Photo Right: Vertical Cask Transport (VCT) used to Transport the Cask

Holtec’s HI-STORM FW Dry Cask Storage System Exceeds Expectations at TVA’s Sequoyah

This issue is adapted from a TVA news bulletin and a subsequent piece published by Nuclear News, on April 21, 2016.

Holtec and Sequoyah’s dry cask team safely and successfully loaded five HI-STORM FW dry cask storage systems on schedule, while remaining below dose goals, with no human performance events, no injuries, and no personnel contaminations. This is the first time that Sequoyah has used Holtec’s HI-STORM FW dry-storage cask system. The dry cask team prepared for several weeks leading up to the fuel loading campaign by performing dry rehearsals, to ensure the equipment worked properly and the procedures were correct. (more…)

EDF Energy and Holtec Complete the UK’s First “Dry Fuel Store” at Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station
Dry Fuel Store Opening, March 31, 2016 From Left to Right:Stuart Crooks, Managing Director – Generation, EDF Energy; Vincent de Rivaz, CEO, EDF Energy; Paul Morton, Sizewell B Station Director, EDF Energy; and Dr. Kris Singh, President and CEO, Holtec International

EDF Energy and Holtec Complete the UK’s First “Dry Fuel Store” at Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station

EDF Energy is inaugurating the United Kingdom’s first dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, allowing the continued safe operation of Sizewell B to at least 2035 and with the possibility of a further 20 year life extension.

PSEG’s Latest Combined-Cycle Plant Sewaren 7, Designed to Use Air (in Lieu of Water) to Reject its Waste Heat, Will Deploy Holtec’s Air Cooled Condenser
Close-up of Holtec’s Air Cooled Condenser (ACC) at a Domestic Power Plant

PSEG’s Latest Combined-Cycle Plant Sewaren 7, Designed to Use Air (in Lieu of Water) to Reject its Waste Heat, Will Deploy Holtec’s Air Cooled Condenser

We are pleased to announce that PSEG Fossil, a subsidiary of PSEG Power, has selected Holtec International’s state-of-the-art Air Cooled Condenser (ACC) for its Sewaren 7 high-efficiency combined-cycle generating station, in Woodbridge, NJ. The Sewaren ACC will feature 20 discrete heat transfer cells with a footprint of approximately 40,500 square feet and will stand approximately 125 feet tall. Vertically integrated to autonomously deliver air-cooled heat transfer solutions to the industry, Holtec will carry out all required engineering and equipment manufacturing, with limited reliance on third-party suppliers for certain components, such as blowers and deaerators, to ensure on-time deliveries. Photos below show sections of a recently completed ACC supplied by Holtec to a California site. (more…)

Holtec Technology Campus Rising in Camden City on the Delaware Riverfront
Corporate Engineering Center

Holtec Technology Campus Rising in Camden City on the Delaware Riverfront

With the dilapidated 19th century buildings cleared, land de-grubbed, and nearly 4,000 piles installed, the new steel structures on the 50-acre Holtec Technology Campus (HTC) are now rising as a powerful symbol of Camden’s ascendance from industrial decay to the front row of manufacturing modernity.

2015: A Year of Memorable Milestones

2015: A Year of Memorable Milestones

2015 will be remembered as the year when several of Holtec International’s game-changing technologies, some in development for over a decade, underwent their inaugural deployments.

Team Holtec, LLC, Poised To Decommission Shutdown Nuclear Power Plant Sites

Team Holtec, LLC, Poised To Decommission Shutdown Nuclear Power Plant Sites

We are pleased to announce the launching of Team Holtec, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtec International, tasked with carrying out the decommissioning and dismantlement of shutdown nuclear plants by deploying the best technologies developed and honed by an elite group of North America’s top nuclear contractors. Team Holtec, LLC is working with the following nuclear companies with sterling reputations (in alphabetical order): Atkins with Faithful and Gould, Beckman & Associates, Inc., Black & Veatch, CN Associates, DP Engineering Ltd. Co., High Bridge Associates, Inc., GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Holtec International, Manafort Brothers, Inc., Northwest Demolition & Dismantling, Radiation Safety & Control Services, Sarens Group, Sargent & Lundy, Saulsbury Industries, Canada’s SNC-Lavalin, UTC-Edlow Nuclear Logistics, Inc. and Wachs Services. Additional members from Europe and Asia may be admitted as Team Holtec enters the overseas markets. (more…)