In a Friday press release, the company said its new rubber-tired, single failure-proof vertical cask transporter (VCT) provides “a safer and more efficient option for dry cask storage.”
“The biggest advantage of the new Konecranes design, with patent-pending concepts, is that we use quick-connecting single failure proof crane hoisting machinery to reach down and pick up the cask and canister,” said Matt Nemet, regions sales manager for Konecranes Nuclear Equipment and Services, in the release. “Older machines require workers to rig heavy slings to pick it up, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive and can potentially increase radiation “dose” exposure.”
Nemet estimated that the crane-based equipment reduces loading time by as much as 50 percent, according to the release.