Holtec International Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer Pierre Oneid joins host Marty Cohn to talk about the work Holtec is doing for Vermont Yankee as well as plants all across the world as they look to move their spent fuel safely into dry cask storage.
Holtec International and inventor Krishna P. Singh, Ph.D.received an Edison Patent Award in the public safety category for “Systems and Methods for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel” (U.S. Patent 8,625,732 B2).
Holtec International's Manufacturing Division was featured on National Geographic's "Shrink-Wrapped and Boxed Up."
On August 28, 2013 Holtec International performed an ‘Aircraft Crash Test’ on a scaled model of a HI-STAR 180 transport/storage cask at the United States Army facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, located in Aberdeen, Maryland. The test was a huge success; all of the body bolts in the containment boundary of the cask remained elastic and there was no breach of the containment boundary.
This video shows the process of taking the used fuel from the spent fuel pools, located inside the Diablo Canyon Power Plant's fuel handling building and safely transporting it to the on-site dry storage facility.
Pierre Oneid, Holtec International's senior vice president and chief nuclear officer, and SMR's president, explains that small reactors need to be economical to compete with coal power and natural gas in the future.
Holtec International was featured on the Discovery Channel's "How Its Made," Season 9, Episode 11.
Gov. Nikki Haley is getting together with leaders in the nuclear industry to talk about how small nuclear reactors can bring jobs to South Carolina.
Pierre Oneid, Holtec International's senior vice president and chief nuclear officer, and SMR's president, explains that small reactor designs will incorporate safety lessons learned from the Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents.
Plea by Kris Singh (President and CEO of Holtec International) for help to create jobs for American workers in the nuclear power industry in a US Senate Subcommittee hearing.
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