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 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.
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…)
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.
In a ceremony presided by Ukraine’s National Nuclear Energy Generating Company (Energoatom) President Mr. Yuriy Nedashkovsky on October 28, 2015, Holtec International signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ukraine's Turboatom for the latter to manufacture Holtec engineered ventilated storage casks to meet Ukraine’s domestic needs.
On September 23, 2015, after completing the necessary design and safety studies, Holtec submitted the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) for the HI-STAR ATB 1T Transport Package to the U.S. NRC for approval as a Type B (U) package.
Holtec International and Westinghouse Electric Company today jointly announced they have signed a 10-year teaming agreement to provide pool-to-pad services to U.S. nuclear sites using Holtec’s dry cask spent fuel storage technology.
With this new teaming agreement, U.S. customers will benefit from Westinghouse’s experience as the industry leader in dry storage canister welding, coupled with Holtec as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service provider. The combination offers cross-qualified experienced crew members to meet the growing demand for dry storage resources. (more…)
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On August 11, 2015, President and CEO, Dr. Kris Singh, honored Mr. Oliver D. Kingsley Jr. (pictured below) with the “Energy Statesman” award, which is given to the most transformative figure in the nuclear power industry. The ceremony drew leadership of a majority of nuclear units in the U.S. as well as top executives from major architect engineers, constructors and the Nuclear Energy Institute. (more…)
We are pleased to report that the Safety Analysis Report (SAR) on HI-STAR 190 was submitted to the USNRC on August 7, 2015. HI-STAR 190 is the intended transportation cask to ship loaded canisters from around the country to Holtec’s planned Consolidated Interim Storage facility in Southeast New Mexico (ELEA). HI-STAR 190 (pictorial rendering shown below) is designed to transport all Holtec MPCs (multi-purpose canisters) including the MPC containing the extra-long fuel used at South Texas Project and the soon to be burned AP-1000 fuel (essentially all spent fuel from western light water reactors (LWRs)). HI-STAR 190’s counterpart to transport used fuel from VVERs, termed HI-STAR 190M, is also in an advanced stage of development by Holtec. HI-STAR 190M will be used to transport Holtec’s multi-purpose canisters known as MPC-31 and MPC-85, which are designed to package used fuel from VVER-1000 and VVER-440 reactors, respectively. HI-STAR 190M will be submitted to Ukraine’s national regulator, State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU), for licensing under IAEA regulations. (more…)