An inspection at Holtec International’s headquarters found that the company violated some federal regulations in its spent fuel cask program, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a recent letter.
In a letter to Holtec president and CEO Krishna Singh, dated Oct. 28 and made public Thursday, NRC said its investigation team in May discovered three minor violations in the quality assurance program for the company’s independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) components.
According to NRC, Holtec didn’t provide the agency with written evaluations explaining why design changes to its spent fuel storage cask systems didn’t require a federal license change. The commission considered these ‘non-cited violations’ under its enforcement policy, meaning that Holtec has already resolved the issue and that NRC won’t penalize the company.
The rest of Holtec’s quality assurance program was up to code, NRC said in its report.
Holtec’s ISFSI systems are used to store spent fuel at nuclear power plants across the country, such as San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in California. The company also has a growing decommissioning business. Holtec Decommissioning International (HDI), its joint venture with SNC Lavalin, is currently dismantling New York’s Indian Point plant, the Pilgrim plant in Massachusetts and New Jersey’s Oyster Creek site.
