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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
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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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October 10, 2016
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
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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

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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September 21, 2016
Strong Support for the HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility in New Mexico
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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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September 13, 2016
“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
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“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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August 9, 2016
Ukraine’s Nuclear Energy Chief Addresses the Atlantic Council
From Left to Right: Mr. Yuriy Nedashkovsky (President of the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine, Energoatom); Mr. John Herbst (Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center of the Atlantic Council); Dr. Kris Singh (President and CEO of Holtec)
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Ukraine’s Nuclear Energy Chief Addresses the Atlantic Council

On August 1, 2016, President Yuriy Nedashkovsky of Ukraine’s National Nuclear Energy Company, Energoatom, was the featured luncheon guest at the Atlantic Council, a premier think tank in Washington of which Holtec International is a member.

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August 3, 2016
Safety Analysis to Store the NUHOMS Canister in the HI-STORM UMAX Subterranean System, Critical to Making it a Universal Storage Facility, Completed
Solidworks™ Rendering of the Canister Handling Apparatus
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Safety Analysis to Store the NUHOMS Canister in the HI-STORM UMAX Subterranean System, Critical to Making it a Universal Storage Facility, Completed

We are pleased to announce the completion of the design and safety analysis effort to enable the NUHOMS 24PT1-DSC canister to be up-righted and stored in the HI-STORM UMAX subterranean storage system in the vertical orientation.

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July 29, 2016
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