All Non-Fuel Waste from Oyster Creek and Pilgrim Nuclear Plants Packaged and Placed in Environmentally-Sequestered Storage 

Holtec International is pleased to announce that, following the record-breaking defueling of the Oyster Creek and Pilgrim Nuclear spent fuel pools, both facilities’ high-level waste parts have been safely and successfully loaded into Holtec’s HI-SAFE storage systems and securely stored at the respective sites. 

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Holtec Announces Agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. to Develop SMR-160 Digital Instrumentation System

Holtec International is pleased to announce it has reached an agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation’s U.S. subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. to design and engineer the digital instrumentation and control systems (I&C) for its SMR-160 small modular reactor. 

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Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd., India’s National Nuclear Plant Owner and Operator, Orders On-site Transport Casks from Holtec Asia

We are pleased to announce that our Pune, India based subsidiary, Holtec Asia, has received an order for two transport casks from Mumbai-based Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) to serve the away-from-reactor storage facility for the country’s Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) located on the east coast of the Tamil Nadu state.

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New Mexico Officials Visit Callaway Energy Center and Its Below-Ground Fuel Storage Facility / NRC Licensing Update for Holtec’s Proposed HI-STORE CISF

Holtec International’s efforts are nearing completion to obtain a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) license to operate the HI-STORE consolidated interim storage facility (CISF) in southeastern New Mexico on land owned by the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA).

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Recordable Memories of 2021

Our corporate annals would proudly record certain consequential achievements amid the Covid-19 tribulations that defined 2021 for our people and our company.

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A New World Record for Rapid Transfer of All Fissile Material From a Decommissioning Plant’s Spent Fuel Pool is Set at Pilgrim 

On December 13, the last multi-purpose canister containing Pilgrim’s spent nuclear fuel was placed in dry storage emptying its Reactor Building of all fissile material and setting a new industry record for the speediest transfer of the plant’s used nuclear fuel to on-site storage. 

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Palisades and Big Rock Point Licenses Transfer to Holtec, Approved by the USNRC Today, Enlarges Holtec’s Decommissioning Fleet to Seven Reactor Units

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the transfer of the Palisades Power Plant to Holtec International after the facility permanently shuts down in the spring of 2022. The approval also allows the transfer of Entergy’s decommissioned Big Rock Point facility near Charlevoix, Michigan, where only the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) remains.

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