Holtec Highlights

Spent fuel pools at nuclear power plants and at away-from-reactor (AFR) wet storage have, for the most part, performed reliably. Although seepage of contaminated water from the pool has been a relatively rare occurrence, leaching of contaminated pool water to the proximate land can have severe consequences. In order to mitigate this possibility, Holtec International has developed a new pool liner embodiment that precludes the risk of out-migration of the pool’s water. (more…)

Holtec is pleased to announce the completion of the largest pool to pad loading campaign to date at PSEG’s Hope Creek Nuclear Plant. At a celebratory dinner on Thursday, September, 4, Holtec thanked the PSEG dry storage team lead by Mr. Scott Kelley, Manager of Outage Services, and Mr. Tom McLaughlin, Outage Superintendent, for their support which contributed to the success of this campaign. The following article internally distributed as a ‘Hope Creek FYI’ by PSEG provides an exceptional summary of the campaign. (more…)

Holtec’s site construction group has successfully completed several major construction projects thus far this year that have included the building of ISFSI pads, heavy haul paths, Cask Transfer Facilities (CTF), ISFSI, existing plant security upgrades, and equipment storage buildings at various nuclear power plant sites. (more…)

Earlier this month, the Holtec dry cask loading crew at Southern Nuclear’s Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant placed the eighth and final cask of the 2014 campaign on the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) pad. This accomplishment set a Southern Nuclear Operating Company fleet record for the most casks loaded in a single Used Fuel Loading Outage (UFLO). What’s more, Farley achieved a record lowest dose-per-cask accumulation in the fleet and earned a position in the industry’s top quartile (see the table below). This was Farley’s seventh UFLO campaign. The initial UFLO campaign was in 2005 and currently there are 29 HI-STORM systems with 928 fuel assemblies safely stored on the Farley ISFSI pads. All of the dry storage equipment in use at Plant Farley is manufactured at Holtec Manufacturing Division (HMD) located in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. (more…)

A milestone has been reached for Holtec International’s Site Services group as they successfully completed the single largest delivery, preparation, and finishing of HI-STORM 100 systems to date. Holtec Site Services, in conjunction with Cook Nuclear Plant, overseen by Manager of Dry Cask Operations Paul Carteaux, successfully loaded, delivered, and assembled a record breaking twelve HI-STORM overpacks. (more…)