Holtec International
A nuclear technology company specializing in used fuel storage and transport and decommissioning services, and the company restarting the Palisades Nuclear Plant.
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Ex-employee who sued company defamed company, Holtec says
As part of a six-month old lawsuit against the company, Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., recently accused a former employee of defamation over allegedly false language that appeared in a publicity campaign and news stories. The Superior Court of New Jersey in Camden County planned to decide on Jan. 19 whether to allow the defamation claim […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Ex-employee who sued company defamed company, Holtec says
As part of a six-month old lawsuit against the company, Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., recently accused a former employee of defamation over allegedly false language that appeared in a publicity campaign and news stories. The Superior Court of New Jersey in Camden County planned to decide on Jan. 19 whether to allow the defamation claim […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
NRC looking into environmentalist claims of trust fund abuse at Palisades
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will review environmentalists’ claims that Holtec Decommissioning International illegally paid for the upkeep of Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Plant with funds intended to pay for the plant’s teardown, the commission said this week. The NRC the referred groups’ “concerns that Holtec has misused the decommissioning trust fund to the Executive Director for […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
Lawmakers urge ‘swift’ consideration of Holtec’s federal loan application for Palisades
A group of lawmakers recently urged the Department of Energy to speed up its consideration of Holtec International’s request for a large federal loan to restart the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan. “[W]e urge the Department of Energy to give its fair, full, and swift consideration to the application,” the bipartisan, nine-member bloc of […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
NRC looking into environmentalist claims of trust fund abuse at Palisades
Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will review environmentalists’ claims that Holtec Decommissioning International illegally paid for the upkeep of Michigan’s Palisades Nuclear Plant with funds intended to pay for the plant’s teardown, the commission said this week. The NRC the referred groups’ “concerns that Holtec has misused the decommissioning trust fund to the Executive Director for […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
NRC staff says toss enviros’ hearing request about Palisades restart — for now
Environmentalists have no right to a hearing over Holtec International’s plans to restart the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan, but they might soon, Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff said Friday. Palisades shut down in 2022 but Holtec, which bought the plant from Entergy to decommission, is now trying to restart it. The company needs a […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec wants NRC to deny antinuclear groups a hearing over proposed Palisades restart
Holtec International this week asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to dismiss an antinuclear group’s attempt to block regulatory action needed to restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant. Holtec on Monday asked the commission secretary to deny a Dec. 5 petition by three antinuclear groups who want a hearing about the company’s Sept. 28 request for an […]
-
Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Holtec planning to build two small reactors at Palisades site
Holtec International on Monday announced it plans to file construction permits in 2026 to build a pair of small modular reactors at the site of the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, which the company hopes to restart in 2025. Notionally to be commissioned as soon as 2030, the two SMR-300 reactors are “likely to be […]
-
Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Holtec planning to build two small reactors at Palisades site
Holtec International on Monday announced it plans to file construction permits in 2026 to build a pair of small modular reactors at the site of the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, which the company hopes to restart in 2025. Notionally to be commissioned as soon as 2030, the two SMR-300 reactors are “likely to be […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Pilgrim decom delay won’t run up the bills, Holtec rep tells state citizens group
Delaying the partial release of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station by four years will not increase the cost of decommissioning the shuttered plant, a representative of Holtec International said this week. Holtec in October disclosed that Pilgrim’s partial release date will slip to Sept. 24, 2035 from Sept. 24, 2031. The company, which bought the […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Pilgrim decom delay won’t run up the bills, Holtec rep tells state citizens group
Delaying the partial release of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station by four years will not increase the cost of decommissioning the shuttered plant, a representative of Holtec International said this week. Holtec in October disclosed that Pilgrim’s partial release date will slip to Sept. 24, 2035 from Sept. 24, 2031. The company, which bought the […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec and its ex-CFO headed to settlement negotiations in whistleblower lawsuit
A New Jersey court this week ordered Holtec International, Jupiter, Fla., and its former finance chief to try to settle the latter’s lawsuit about the company’s alleged attempts to mislead an investor. The Superior Court of New Jersey in Camden County sent the parties to mediation in a Nov. 20 order. Holtec and Kevin O’Rourke, […]
-
Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Holtec, NEI jump into lawsuit over the fate of commercial interim storage
Holtec and the Nuclear Energy Institute appeared in court to have their say in a two year-old lawsuit that could determine the future of commercially operated storage of spent nuclear fuel. The company and the industry’s Washington-based advocacy group filed friend-of-the-court briefs last week with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where Interim Storage […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Wastewater bans in Mass., NY, delay partial release of two shuttered nuke plants, Holtec says
New state rules restricting discharge of irradiated water will delay cleanup of nuclear plants in Massachusetts and New York by four and eight years, respectively, Holtec International told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week. These prohibitions mean the partial site release date of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts will slip to Sept. 24, […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Wastewater bans in Mass., NY, delay partial release of two shuttered nuke plants, Holtec says
New state rules restricting discharge of irradiated water will delay cleanup of nuclear plants in Massachusetts and New York by four and eight years, respectively, Holtec International told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week. These prohibitions mean the partial site release date of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts will slip to Sept. 24, […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Indian Point spent fuel now in dry storage, state agency says
Holtec Decommissioning International moved all the spent fuel at the New York’s shuttered Indian Point Nuclear Energy Center into dry storage, a state agency announced Monday. In total, the company has filled 127 concrete casks with 3,998 spent fuel assemblies that are now stored at the Buchanan, N.Y., plant’s independent spent fuel storage installations, according […]
-
Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Holtec exec upbeat on nuclear operations; USEA panelists discuss small modular reactors
The vice president of Holtec’s small modular reactor business is excited about the prospect of developing such units at the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan. “The details remain [to be worked out] as far as the exact timing and the financial conditions,” Tom Marcille, vice president and chief nuclear officer at Holtec International SMR, said […]
-
Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Holtec exec upbeat on nuclear operations; USEA panelists discuss small modular reactors
The vice president of Holtec’s small modular reactor business is excited about the prospect of developing such units at the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan. “The details remain [to be worked out] as far as the exact timing and the financial conditions,” Tom Marcille, vice president and chief nuclear officer at Holtec International SMR,” said […]
-
Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Holtec exec upbeat on nuclear operations; USEA panelists discuss small modular reactors
The vice president of Holtec’s small modular reactor business is excited about the prospect of developing such units at the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan. “The details remain [to be worked out] as far as the exact timing and the financial conditions,” Tom Marcille, vice president and chief nuclear officer at Holtec International SMR, said […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Indian Point spent fuel now in dry storage, state agency says
Holtec Decommissioning International moved all the spent fuel at the New York’s shuttered Indian Point Nuclear Energy Center into dry storage, a state agency announced Monday. In total, the company has filled 127 concrete casks with 3,998 spent fuel assemblies that are now stored at the Buchanan, N.Y., plant’s independent spent fuel storage installations, according […]
-
Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
New Mexico lawmakers hear about state enforcement of, possible lawsuit over, interim storage ban
New Mexico officials on Tuesday briefed state lawmakers near Carlsbad, N.M., about enforcing a new state law that prohibits storage of spent nuclear fuel in the Land of Enchantment. Passed in March, the law, SB 53, prohibits the New Mexico Environment Department from granting permits vital to the operation of Holtec International’s proposed consolidated interim […]
-
Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
New Mexico lawmakers hear from state enforcement agency about interim storage ban
New Mexico officials on Tuesday briefed state lawmakers near Carlsbad, N.M., about enforcing a new state law that prohibits storage of spent nuclear fuel in the Land of Enchantment. Passed in March, the law, SB 53, prohibits a state agency from granting permits vital to the operation of Holtec International’s proposed consolidated interim storage facility […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec forming Palisades operating company; needs big DOE loan, NRC approval, for restart
Holtec International is creating a new subsidiary to switch back on the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan in less than two years, company executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Tuesday at agency headquarters in Rockville, Md. The new operating company will eventually employ about 500 people, including more than 200 who are working on […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec forming Palisades operating company; needs big DOE loan, NRC approval, for restart
Holtec International is creating a new subsidiary to switch back on the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan in less than two years, company executives told Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff Tuesday at agency headquarters in Rockville, Md. The new operating company will eventually employ about 500 people, including more than 200 who are working on […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec to meet again with NRC staff Tuesday about Palisades restart
Executives with Holtec’s decommissioning arm were scheduled to meet Tuesday with Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff to continue a discussion about potentially restarting the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station. The meeting at NRC headquarters in Rockville, Md., was to begin at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time and run until 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, according to a notice […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec prepares for demolition of tanks, reactor vessel at Pilgrim; 80% of plant demolished
Holtec Decommissioning International plans this fall to demolish water tanks at the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant that held radioactively contaminated water and, by mid-winter, package much of the radioactive waste from the plant’s reactor vessel. Members of the Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel heard that and more Monday from Dave Noyes, Holtec’s compliance […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec prepares for demolition of tanks, reactor vessel at Pilgrim; 80% of plant demolished
Holtec Decommissioning International plans this fall to demolish water tanks at the shuttered Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant that held radioactively contaminated water and, by mid-winter, package much of the radioactive waste from the plant’s reactor vessel. Members of the Massachusetts Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel heard that and more Monday from Dave Noyes, Holtec’s compliance […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Ex-Holtec CFO returns volley in lawsuit over allegedly dodgy investor pitch to Hyundai
In a court filing this week, Holtec International’s ex-finance chief said he neither disclosed corporate secrets nor violated a nondisclosure agreement by publicly suing his former employer. Kevin O’Rourke sued Holtec, Jupiter, Fla., June 1 in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Camden County, alleging the company overvalued itself in an effort to get […]
-
Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec announces power purchase agreement for Palisades; plant still needs DOE loan
Two electric cooperatives would purchase electricity generated by the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan if the plant restarts, plant owner Holtec International said this week in a statement. If Palisades restarts, something Holtec has said could happen in August 2025, if everything goes according to the company’s unprecedented plan, Wolverine Power Cooperative will purchase […]
-
Commercial Decommissioning
Ex-Holtec CFO returns volley in lawsuit over allegedly dodgy investor pitch to Hyundai
In a court filing this week, Holtec International’s ex-finance chief said he neither disclosed corporate secrets nor violated a nondisclosure agreement by publicly suing his former employer. Kevin O’Rourke sued Holtec, Jupiter, Fla., June 1 in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Camden County, alleging the company overvalued itself in an effort to get […]





