NAC News
April 13, 2017
NORCROSS, GA — NAC International Inc. (NAC) is pleased to announce that on April 6, 2017, it completed the successful loading of its 100th MAGNASTOR system, reaching new heights in system maturity, reliability and performance to efficiently store commercial spent fuel. This milestone was achieved with the loading of the 13th MAGNASTOR system at the Kewaunee Power Station in Wisconsin, where MAGNASTOR systems are relied upon to accelerate defueling of the Kewaunee spent fuel pool as an important element of the plant decommissioning strategy. NAC is the full scope contractor to Dominion Energy Kewaunee, Inc. (Dominion) and leads a talented team which includes Westinghouse for cask loading operations. NAC is on track to complete the successful relocation of all spent fuel in 24 MAGNASTOR systems by June 2017.
December 5, 2016
NORCROSS, GA — NAC International Inc. (NAC) is pleased to announce the successful completion and safe deployment of 56 NAC-MPC cask systems at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in West Valley, New York. A significant project milestone was achieved on November 17, 2016, with the placement of the last NAC-MPC system transferred to the newly built onsite dry storage facility. This project sets an industry record where multi-purpose canister based systems are relied upon to safely store vitrified high level waste (HLW) at a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear decommissioning project. A talented team, led by the site prime contractor, CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley, LLC (CHBWV), completed the safe loading of the 56 HLW canisters as part of the WVDP Phase I Decommissioning Project, which concluded with the successful relocation of HLW to the onsite dry storage facility.
November 18, 2016
NORCROSS, GA — NAC International Inc. (NAC) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CH2M) for the supply of NAC-Multi-Purpose Canister (NAC-MPC) dry storage systems and specialized technology to safely package and store 1,936 radioactive capsules currently stored at the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Hanford Site in Washington State. The capsules contain radionuclides and wastes generated during the chemical processing of defense fuel at the Hanford Site. CH2M is DOE’s prime contractor for the safe, environmental cleanup of the Central Plateau at the DOE’s Hanford Site, including management of the WESF. DOE currently plans to implement on-site extended storage of the WESF capsules relying on commercially available dry storage technology and best industry practices.
September 15, 2016
West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Construction of Vertical Storage Casks Completion Goal Met!
Working with and supporting CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley LLC, NAC and its team including NAES Constructors and local craft, Peterson Industries, and Lift Systems partnered with the project team to successfully complete a major goal of the project - to safely complete the constructions of 56 Vertical Storage Casks in support of the Phase 1 Facility Decommissioning Plan of the facility.
April 28, 2016
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2016 – Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) submitted an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a license to construct and operate a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for used nuclear fuel and reactor generated Greater-Than-Class-C wastes today. The filing comes after a year of pre-application meetings with NRC and maintains the timeline WCS outlined in February 2015.
January 12, 2016
NORCROSS, Ga. – NAC International Inc. (NAC) announced that it has entered into a contract with China National Nuclear Corporation Everclean Co., LTD (CNNC-E) and China Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation (CNEIC) for supply of NAC pressurized water reactor high burnup spent fuel transport casks and associated equipment. Under the contract, NAC will supply four (4) new NAC-STC transportation casks and related ancillary equipment. This contract award concludes a highly competitive procurement by CNNC-E/CNEIC to expand CNNC-E’s transportation cask fleet with proven technologies that can support future large scale spent fuel transport in China, while accommodating modern spent fuel generated by Chinese commercial power reactors. In particular, the scope of the contract includes NAC design, engineering, licensing and fabrication of the NAC-STC transportation casks optimized to transport high burnup fuels with higher initial enrichment and shorter cooling times. These new systems will support CNNC-E’s spent fuel transportation campaigns from the Daya Bay nuclear station, located near Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. CNNC-E is also planning to use these packages for potential future shipments from other Chinese commercial power reactors.
November 13, 2015
NORCROSS, Ga. — NAC International Inc. (NAC) is pleased to announce the successful first-time deployment of its NAC-MPC technology for the dry storage of vitrified high level waste (HLW) at a U.S. Department of Energy nuclear decommissioning project. This first-of-its-kind accomplishment was achieved on November 10th, with the emplacement of one NAC-MPC system containing five (5) HLW canisters into a newly built onsite dry storage facility at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) in West Valley, New York.
October 26, 2015
Doosan and NAC are pleased to announce the signing of a cooperation agreement for the joint development of CASK, a spent nuclear fuel storage system. CASK is a special container standing some 5 meters tall and weighing over 100 tons that is designed to carry and store spent fuel. The storage system requires a special design and production technology for transportation and storage, and will be built to ensure protections from the intense levels of radiation and heat from the enclosed spent fuel.
June 5, 2015
Effective, Thursday, June 4, 2015, Keith Brookshire joined NAC as Vice President, Finance & Administration. In Mr. Brookshire’s new role, he will serve as Treasurer and a key member of the executive management team, reporting to NAC President and CEO, Kent Cole. Mr. Brookshire will be responsible for the overall management of the financial and administrative related activities of the Company.
May 21, 2015
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – AREVA Inc and NAC International (NAC), two global leaders in used nuclear fuel storage, have signed an agreement to jointly support the licensing, design, construction and operation of the Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) project in Andrews County, Texas, led by Waste Control Specialists, LLC (WCS).
