PSEG’s Latest Combined-Cycle Plant Sewaren 7, Designed to Use Air (in Lieu of Water) to Reject its Waste Heat, Will Deploy Holtec’s Air Cooled Condenser
Close-up of Holtec’s Air Cooled Condenser (ACC) at a Domestic Power Plant

PSEG’s Latest Combined-Cycle Plant Sewaren 7, Designed to Use Air (in Lieu of Water) to Reject its Waste Heat, Will Deploy Holtec’s Air Cooled Condenser

We are pleased to announce that PSEG Fossil, a subsidiary of PSEG Power, has selected Holtec International’s state-of-the-art Air Cooled Condenser (ACC) for its Sewaren 7 high-efficiency combined-cycle generating station, in Woodbridge, NJ. The Sewaren ACC will feature 20 discrete heat transfer cells with a footprint of approximately 40,500 square feet and will stand approximately 125 feet tall. Vertically integrated to autonomously deliver air-cooled heat transfer solutions to the industry, Holtec will carry out all required engineering and equipment manufacturing, with limited reliance on third-party suppliers for certain components, such as blowers and deaerators, to ensure on-time deliveries. Photos below show sections of a recently completed ACC supplied by Holtec to a California site. (more…)

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Holtec Technology Campus Rising in Camden City on the Delaware Riverfront
Corporate Engineering Center

Holtec Technology Campus Rising in Camden City on the Delaware Riverfront

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.

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2015: A Year of Memorable Milestones

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.

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Team Holtec, LLC, Poised To Decommission Shutdown Nuclear Power Plant Sites

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…)

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Holtec’s Underground Used Fuel Storage Patent (HI-STORM UMAX) Wins 2015 Thomas Alva Edison Award for Enhancing Public Health & Safety

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.

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Ukraine’s Turboatom to Build Holtec’s Vertical Ventilated Casks for Energoatom’s Central Storage Facility

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.

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A Large Capacity Type B (U) Transport Package (HI-STAR ATB 1T) for Activated Metal Waste Submitted to the U.S. NRC for Approval
HI-STAR ATB1T Package

A Large Capacity Type B (U) Transport Package (HI-STAR ATB 1T) for Activated Metal Waste Submitted to the U.S. NRC for Approval

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.

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Holtec Teams with Westinghouse to Strengthen its Dry Cask Services for U.S. Nuclear Power Plants

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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The Industry’s First Subterranean Canister Storage System: HI-STORM UMAX is Loaded at Callaway & Captain Ed Mayer to Head Holtec’s ELEA CIS Program Envisioned to be World’s largest HI-STORM UMAX Facility.
Vertical Cask Transporter Lowering the MPC-37 from the HI-TRAC Transfer Cask into the HI-STORM UMAX Subterranean Storage Cavity

The Industry’s First Subterranean Canister Storage System: HI-STORM UMAX is Loaded at Callaway & Captain Ed Mayer to Head Holtec’s ELEA CIS Program Envisioned to be World’s largest HI-STORM UMAX Facility.

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Holtec Confers the “Energy Statesman” Award on the Legendary Nuclear Industry Leader, Oliver D. Kingsley Jr.

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…)

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