Holtec International on Monday announced that it had signed a deal for a Ukrainian company to build storage casks for a facility being built by the U.S. energy technology specialist in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
The memorandum of understanding between Holtec and Turboatom was signed last week, according to a Holtec press release. The deal calls for Turboatom to initially supply 94 Holtec-engineered HI-STORM 190 vertical ventilated casks. “Expansion of the cooperation agreement to supply casks to the countries in the region over time is also contemplated,” the release says.
Holtec in 2005 obtained the contract to build the Central Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility, which, after some delays, is scheduled to be commissioned in 2018. The site will store VVER fuel from Ukraine’s nine reactors in Holtec-provided vertical ventilated systems, the press release says.
