AREVA TN, a branch of French nuclear giant AREVA, on Tuesday said it has broken ground on a facility in Moyock, N.C., that will cast the concrete for the company’s NUHOMS spent fuel storage modules.
The Moyock Casting Facility (MCF) is expected to have about 20 workers on one production line. Further details of the plant were not immediately available.
“While our offices are still in temporary quarters, we have already begun concrete pours for the first production modules. Based on our customer requirements, we may ship our first batch of components in July 2016,” MCF Director Marlin Stoltz said in a press release.
The NUHOMS system is used for long-term horizontal dry storage of spent nuclear fuel. Each one encompasses stainless steel canisters held within concrete modules. The system is already used at over 30 sites around the nation, and they would also be employed at a consolidated interim fuel storage site planned by Waste Control Specialists in West Texas.
AREVA TN’s stainless steel canisters are already produced by Columbiana Hi Tech in Kernersville, N.C.
