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Turnkey Project for Deployment of Holtec’s HI-STORM Systems at Mexico’s Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station Nears Completion
HI-STORM FW Systems on Completed ISFSI Pad at Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant
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Turnkey Project for Deployment of Holtec’s HI-STORM Systems at Mexico’s Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Station Nears Completion

We are pleased to report that Holtec’s turnkey project for installation and commissioning of an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI), at Mexico’s national utility, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant, is moving rapidly toward completion.

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July 23, 2016
“Topping-off” Ceremony Marks Completion of the Manufacturing Facility Structure at the Holtec Technology Campus on the Delaware Waterfront in Camden, NJ
Topping-off Ceremony Keynote Speakers Together Raise a Miniature Version of a Steel Girder From Left to Right: Camden Mayor Dana Redd; Commissioner Bob Martin (NJ Department of Environmental Protection); NJ Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno; Mr. William Levis (President and COO of PSEG); Dr. Kris Singh (President and CEO of Holtec)
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“Topping-off” Ceremony Marks Completion of the Manufacturing Facility Structure at the Holtec Technology Campus on the Delaware Waterfront in Camden, NJ

Senior local and New Jersey state officials, led by Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno, celebrated the “beam topping-off” ceremony, along with some 200 assembled county residents, members of the media and Holtec’s professionals hailing a major milestone for the Holtec Technology Campus.

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July 9, 2016
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
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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…)

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June 15, 2016
Holtec’s Chernobyl Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility Welcomes World’s Dignitaries Assembled to Mark the 30th Anniversary of the Epochal Disaster
Aerial View of The Construction Site
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Holtec’s Chernobyl Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility Welcomes World’s Dignitaries Assembled to Mark the 30th Anniversary of the Epochal Disaster

Holtec’s Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility (abbreviated as “ISF-2”) at the Chernobyl Industrial Site being built to house the used fuel assemblies from the site’s three shuttered reactors is nearing completion.

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May 2, 2016
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
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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.

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April 5, 2016
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
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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…)

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March 21, 2016
Holtec Technology Campus Rising in Camden City on the Delaware Riverfront
Corporate Engineering Center
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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.

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February 18, 2016
2015: A Year of Memorable Milestones
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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.

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January 19, 2016
Team Holtec, LLC, Poised To Decommission Shutdown Nuclear Power Plant Sites
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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…)

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November 30, 2015
Holtec’s Underground Used Fuel Storage Patent (HI-STORM UMAX) Wins 2015 Thomas Alva Edison Award for Enhancing Public Health & Safety
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Holtec’s Underground Used Fuel Storage Patent (HI-STORM UMAX) Wins 2015 Thomas Alva Edison Award for Enhancing Public Health & Safety

Dr. Kris Singh, the inventor of Holtec’s HI-STORM UMAX, was recognized at the 36th Edison Patent Awards Ceremony and Reception held on November 12, 2015 at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ.

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November 13, 2015