defueling project – MCC https://midwestcompact.org The Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:19:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 Vermont Yankee’s Used Fuel Placed in Dry Storage https://midwestcompact.org/2018/09/15/vermont-yankees-used-fuel-placed-in-dry-storage/ Sun, 16 Sep 2018 02:00:19 +0000 https://midwestcompact.org/?p=635 On August 2, 2018, Holtec International announced the successful completion of the largest defueling project of a Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) in the United States.  According to Holtec, the project was completed in record time.

Entergy Nuclear signed a contract with Holtec to expeditiously defuel the Vermont Yankee spent fuel pool.  The overall project scope included construction of a second ISFSI pad, security expansion, engineering, licensing, manufacturing, delivering and loading of 45 HI-STORM cask systems, all on a turnkey basis.

For additional information, please contact Erika Grandrimo at (856) 797-0900, ext. 3920 or at e.grandrimo@holtec.com.

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