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Bolstering Public Health & Safety by Proto-Prompt Decommissioning of Closing...
The risk of an accidental pool drain-down precipitating the dreaded specter of zirconium fire, while non-credibly improbable, stalks the decision-making process of every nuclear plant owner preparing...
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Safety, Continuous Improvement Make First Used Fuel Storage Campaign a Watts...
A very large and integrated team focused on safety and continuous improvement to successfully complete Watts Bar’s first used fuel storage campaign. During a span of seven weeks, the Independent Spent...
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Committed to Camden, Making a Difference
Holtec, along with other companies moving into Camden, will help Camden recoup from the urban decay that has engulfed the once-thriving city over the last few decades. Holtec’s efforts to make...
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Holtec Wins the Turnkey Contract for Establishing the Dry Cask Storage...
We are pleased to announce the award of a severely contested contract for turnkey supply of a Dry Cask Storage Facility at Krško Nuclear Power Plant in Slovenia to Holtec International. NEK’s...
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A Historic First for the U.K. Nuclear Industry
On March 13, 2017, the UK’s first dry storage cask was placed inside Sizewell B’s Dry Fuel Storage Building at its designated location. The cask, known as HI-STORM MIC (the acronym MIC stands for...
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Holtec’s Advanced Manufacturing Division in Camden Motoring Along, Meeting...
Starting with just a few craftsmen in a small corner of the Light Manufacturing Plant in the summer of 2016, the Advanced Manufacturing Division (AMD) has blossomed into a substantial operation with...
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The HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage (CIS) Program Reaches a Major...
On March 31, 2017, the NRC will receive Holtec’s application submittal on the HI-STORE CIS, marking a historic day for the nuclear power industry. The application comprises a complete package of...
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Video Available: Press Conference on Holtec’s HI-STORE Consolidated Interim...
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 5, 2017, Holtec and the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance were joined by congressional and community leaders, in the Rayburn House Office Building of Washington, DC, to...
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Switzerland’s KKL Enlists Holtec to Develop a New Dual-Purpose (Storage and...
Under a newly signed contract, Holtec International will develop the BWR version of its extensively tested and validated Type B(U)F cask for PWR fuel, known as HI-STAR 180. HI-STAR 180 is a uniquely...
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Advanced Manufacturing Division in Camden Commissions North America’s Largest...
The installation of the turning rolls took place earlier this week. The machine is capable of producing cylinders like the one picture above. The new Holtec Manufacturing Facility in Camden has...
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Licensing Campaign Launched to Expand Permissible Canister Types for HI-STORE...
On March 31, 2017, Holtec International completed phase one of the HI-STORE CIS (Consolidated Interim Storage) program by submitting the initial licensing request package to the USNRC. We are pleased...
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Ukraine’s Consolidated Interim Storage Project Poised to Make the Nation...
In 2019, Ukraine will become the first country to have a fully-operational Consolidated Interim Storage facility (in the north of the country in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone). Used fuel from the...
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Holtec’s Manufacturing Facilities are Setting the Gold Standard for Personnel...
We are pleased to share with our readers astonishing improvements that have taken place in every metric of worker health and safety in our manufacturing facilities in the past two years. In 2015,...
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1000th Holtec Cask Safely Loaded By Exelon at LaSalle County Nuclear...
Holtec International is pleased to announce the successful loading this past week of its 1,000th dry spent fuel storage system. Number 1,000 was the third cask in the ongoing loading campaign by Exelon...
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Mitsubishi Electric Co. (MELCO) and Holtec Resolve to Broaden Cooperation...
Officials of the Mitsubishi Electric Co. (Japan), their US subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) and Holtec (pictured above) held strategic alliance discussions at the Holtec...
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EDF Energy and Holtec Celebrate Successful Completion of First Spent Fuel...
On June 15, 2017 EDF Energy marked the successful completion of its 1st spent fuel loading campaign and a state-of-the-art new dry store at Sizewell B-UK’s first. The dry store uses Holtec’s double...
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Ukraine’s Central Spent Fuel Storage Facility Gets Regulatory Approval for...
On June 29, 2017, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) issued Certificate # E0 001060, which authorizes Energoatom to construct and commission a central storage facility in the...
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SNC-Lavalin and Holtec Formalize Agreement to Accelerate the Development of...
Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin have formalized an Agreement to partner in accelerating Holtec’s SMR-160 Small Modular Reactor program to develop and deploy SMR-160 power plants around the world....
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William Levis Joins Holtec as its President & COO
We are delighted to welcome Bill Levis as Holtec’s President and COO starting in early October 2017. Dr. Kris Singh, who currently holds both the position of CEO and President will relinquish the...
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Chernobyl’s Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility – World’s Largest – Enters...
On August 1, 2017, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine [SNRIU] approved Holtec-built Chernobyl’s giant fuel storage facility [called ISF-2] for an integrated systems test. This cold...
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