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Mourning the Chernobyl Tragedy’s 33rd Anniversary, Ukraine Views the Rise of Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility as the Harbinger of a Robust Nuclear Future
Ukrainian dignitaries inspect CSFSF, Prime Minister Groysman to the right of Energoatom President Nedashkovsky (in yellow jacket)
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Mourning the Chernobyl Tragedy’s 33rd Anniversary, Ukraine Views the Rise of Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility as the Harbinger of a Robust Nuclear Future

Ukraine’s Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF), world’s first, is being constructed only a few miles from the site of the Chernobyl accident. The CSFSF, designed for 100-year service life, will receive and store used fuel in a robust confinement system shipped from nine of Ukraine’s reactors.

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May 13, 2019
ВШАНОВУЮЧИ 33-і РОКОВИНИ ТРАГЕДІЇ НА ЧАЕС, УКРАЇНА РОЗГЛЯДАЄ СПОРУДЖЕННЯ ЦЕНТРАЛІЗОВАНОГО СХОВИЩА ВІДПРАЦЬОВАНОГО ЯДЕРНОГО ПАЛИВА ЯК ПЕРШУ ОЗНАКУ НАДІЙНОГО МАЙБУТНЬОГО АТОМНОЇ ПРОМИСЛОВОСТІ
Українські високопосадовці перевіряють ЦСВЯП, прем'єр-міністр Гройсман знаходиться праворуч від Президента НАЕК “Енергоатом” Недашковського (у жовтому сигнальному жилеті)
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ВШАНОВУЮЧИ 33-і РОКОВИНИ ТРАГЕДІЇ НА ЧАЕС, УКРАЇНА РОЗГЛЯДАЄ СПОРУДЖЕННЯ ЦЕНТРАЛІЗОВАНОГО СХОВИЩА ВІДПРАЦЬОВАНОГО ЯДЕРНОГО ПАЛИВА ЯК ПЕРШУ ОЗНАКУ НАДІЙНОГО МАЙБУТНЬОГО АТОМНОЇ ПРОМИСЛОВОСТІ

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May 13, 2019
ASLB Denies Intervenors’ Requests-for-Hearing and Terminates the Legal Proceedings on the HI-STORE CIS Program
HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage
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ASLB Denies Intervenors’ Requests-for-Hearing and Terminates the Legal Proceedings on the HI-STORE CIS Program

“Because no petitioner has both demonstrated standing and proffered an admissible contention, this proceeding is terminated” reads the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Memorandum and Order issued May 7 in the licensing process for the Holtec’s HI-STORE CIS facility (NRC’s press release on this matter is attached).  With the hearings hurdle removed, Holtec’s effort to establish the HI-STORE CISF (consolidated interim storage facility) in New Mexico remains on track for licensing in 2020. The license application for the HI-STORE CISF was submitted to the USNRC on March 31, 2017 and was accepted by the Commission in February 2018 (USNRC Docket No. 72-1051).

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May 7, 2019
Final Confirmatory Functional Testing of Chernobyl’s Used Fuel Storage Facility Begins Today with Handover to the Owner Expected this Summer
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Final Confirmatory Functional Testing of Chernobyl’s Used Fuel Storage Facility Begins Today with Handover to the Owner Expected this Summer

We are pleased to announce the start of final system-wide trials for Chernobyl’s dry store facility today. These functional dry runs follow a long series of exhaustive tests of the individual systems, structures and components within the spent nuclear fuel processing and storage complex called ISF-2.

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May 6, 2019
Holtec Has Reached an Agreement with Entergy to Acquire Indian Point Energy Center After the Last of the Three Reactors Shuts Down
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Holtec Has Reached an Agreement with Entergy to Acquire Indian Point Energy Center After the Last of the Three Reactors Shuts Down

We are pleased to announce that Entergy Corp. (NYSE: ETR) has agreed to sell the subsidiaries that own Indian Point Units 1, 2, and 3, located in Buchanan, N.Y., to a Holtec International subsidiary for decommissioning.

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April 16, 2019
Holtec to Team with BGV Group of Ukraine to Expand the Nation’s Mineral Extraction and Processing Infrastructure
From left to right: Dr. Kris Singh (Holtec) and Mr. Gennadii Butkevych (BGV)
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Holtec to Team with BGV Group of Ukraine to Expand the Nation’s Mineral Extraction and Processing Infrastructure

The BGV Group of Ukraine and Holtec International are pleased to announce their decision to enter into a joint venture to develop Ukraine’s untapped mineral resources by building a range of mining, processing and manufacturing facilities to help accelerate the country’s industrialization. 

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March 19, 2019
The Holtec Advisory Council Meeting on SMR-160 Marked by Several Major Milestone Developments
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The Holtec Advisory Council Meeting on SMR-160 Marked by Several Major Milestone Developments

The winter meeting of the Holtec Advisory Council for SMR-160 was attended by invited industry experts from several leading organizations, including Bruce Power, Energoatom (Ukraine), Entergy, Exelon Generation, Southern, Talen Energy, NEI, SNC-Lavalin, Mitsubishi Electric, and several major suppliers which constituted a robust review team encompassing virtually all aspects of the SMR-160 program.

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February 19, 2019
Reprising 2018
Dr. Richard Springman, Vice President of International Projects
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Reprising 2018

At Holtec, 2018 will be remembered as the year when the Company’s four-year quest to launch its decommissioning program reached a successful milestone.

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January 2, 2019
Ukraine’s National Energy Company, Energoatom, Reaches a Major Milestone Towards Implementing a Central Storage Facility for the Country’s Used VVER Fuel
Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC-31) qualified to store and transport 31 VVER-1000 fuel assemblies
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Ukraine’s National Energy Company, Energoatom, Reaches a Major Milestone Towards Implementing a Central Storage Facility for the Country’s Used VVER Fuel

Representatives from Ukraine’s government, parliament, and various sectors of industry witnessed the culmination of a successful series of tests at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant that validated the various critical functions of Holtec-supplied equipment.

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December 7, 2018
Holtec Raises the Minimum Hourly Wage to Fifteen Dollars at Company’s Domestic Operation Centers
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Holtec Raises the Minimum Hourly Wage to Fifteen Dollars at Company’s Domestic Operation Centers

Camden, December 4, 2018: Speaking to a gathering of nuclear industry professionals, Holtec’s President and CEO, Dr. Kris Singh, called a decent basic wage a fundamental human right and announced that Holtec will celebrate the holiday season by raising the minimum base (standard time) wage for its work force at every one of its US plants to $15 per hour.  “This pay raise is a small measure of my appreciation for the hard-working individuals at all Holtec campuses.”

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December 4, 2018