The semi-annual meeting of the Assembly of Donors on July 16, 2015 in London heard Holtec and the Owner State Specialised Enterprise Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (SSE ChNPP) jointly present the latest status on the Chernobyl Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility (ISF-2) Project.
Entergy Vermont Yankee has selected the Holtec HI-STORM 100 dry storage system at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VY) site. The Holtec HI-STORM 100 System is designed to contain up to 68 Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) fuel assemblies and consists of a stainless steel multi-purpose canister (MPC) with a welded baseplate and lid, which is placed inside a coated carbon steel and concrete overpack that is placed on a concrete pad for storage. (more…)
On July 1, 2015, local and state officials and over 200 community leaders and stakeholders attended the groundbreaking of the new Holtec Technology Campus.
The arrival of spring in Missouri coincides with the completion of major civil work on the HI-STORM UMAX ISFSI at Ameren’s Callaway Nuclear Power Plant. The transformation from the support pad with the 48 Cavity Enclosure Containers (CECs) at the bottom of a 25 foot deep excavation in November of 2014, to the current state of completion with the ISFSI Pad, curbing and apron completed and 6 HI-STORM UMAX lids ready for installation is truly a credit to Ameren/Holtec teamwork. The heavy haul path from the Fuel Building to the ISFSI pad is also complete. (more…)
We are pleased to announce the adoption of a Memorandum of Agreement by Holtec International and the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA), LLC to establish an underground consolidated interim storage facility in southeastern New Mexico, approximately 12 miles from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) facility (see map below). ELEA, a limited liability company owned by the cities of Carlsbad and Hobbs, and Eddy County and Lea County, has successfully secured the support of the state of New Mexico to build a state-of-the-art interim storage facility on their industrial land.
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We are pleased to report that the turnkey installation and commissioning effort of an independent spent fuel storage facility at the Laguna Verde site has made great strides in the past three months since the contract’s inception in December 2014. Mexico’s national utility, Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) owns Laguna Verde’s two BWRs located on Mexico’s Gulf Coast in the state of Veracruz. Back in 1991, Holtec had equipped the Laguna Verde twin fuel pools with high density fuel storage racks under a successful turnkey contract. (more…)
On January 26, 2015, the President of National Nuclear Energy Generating Company of Ukraine (“Energoatom”), Mr. Yuriy Nedashkovsky, and Holtec International’s (Holtec) President and CEO, Dr. Kris Singh, signed the recently updated contract for the Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) in a ceremony held at Energoatom's EU Office in Brussels, Belgium.
2014 was a consequential year for our company due to our deep business roots in Ukraine which were traumatized by external aggression.
We are pleased to announce that Southern California Edison (SCE) has awarded an Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) contract to Holtec to place the used fuel inventory of the two retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) reactors into dry storage. Under the contract, Holtec will construct a HI-STORM UMAX underground storage facility to store 2,668 used fuel assemblies in the MPC-37 multi-purpose canister, each containing 37 used fuel assemblies. HI-STORM UMAX is an acronym for Underground and MAXimum Safety and Security. Holtec will also perform pool-to-pad loading services for all used fuel and non-fuel waste stored in the spent fuel pools of SONGS Unit 2 and 3. To insure a long service life in the site’s salt air environment, SCE has selected the most corrosion resistant grade of stainless steel, 316L grade austenitic stainless steel, for the confinement boundary of the MPC in lieu of the commonly used 304 grade. Likewise, all external surfaces of the storage cavity in contact with the ambient air will be upgraded from carbon steel to stainless steel to minimize in-service maintenance requirements. (more…)
We are pleased to report on the progress of the HI-STORM UMAX construction at Ameren’s Callaway Nuclear Plant. The HI-STORM UMAX support foundation pad (base mat), founded on the bottom of a 25 feet deep pit, now holds 48 Cavity Enclosure Canisters (CECs) (see photo below). (more…)