Providers seek out transfer of Southwest Michigan’s nuclear plant license immediately after shutdown in 2022

COVERT, MI – A Southwest Michigan nuclear power plant has taken a further step towards eventual shutdown and decommissioning planned for 2022.

Entergy Company and Holtec International submitted a license transfer application with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requesting approval to transfer the licenses for the Palisades Nuclear Plant to Holtec next its shutdown and long-lasting defueling in spring 2022.

Holtec’s filings detail its program to total the dismantling, decontamination and remediation of Palisades to regulatory commission benchmarks by 2041. That is much more than 40 years faster than if Entergy continued to personal the facility and chosen the utmost 60-year NRC SAFSTOR alternative for decommissioning, according to a information release issued by the two companies.

Related: Entergy ideas to continue to keep Palisades nuclear plant functioning through 2022

There are at this time about 600 workforce at Palisades. As part of the pending deal, Holtec dedicated to presenting employment to all Period 1 employees — about 260 men and women — reported Jerry Nappi of Entergy.

Personnel who do not apply for and settle for positions inside the Section 1 firm have the option to continue being with Entergy if they are prepared to relocate, Nappi mentioned. Other remaining plant staff members will individual from the firm when Phase 1 commences, he claimed.

The application also requests approval of the license transfer of Entergy’s now-decommissioned Large Rock Point facility near Charlevoix, Michigan, exactly where only an Unbiased Put in Gasoline Storage Set up (ISFSI) remains.

Pursuing regulatory acceptance and finalization of the transaction, Holtec will believe ownership of the Palisades web page, its Nuclear Decommissioning Have confidence in fund, real assets and utilised nuclear fuel. It will also believe ownership of the Large Rock Position storage facility and used nuclear fuel.

Connected: Palisades nuclear plant on Lake Michigan seeks acceptance for repairs

Holtec’s plan phone calls for the motion of all used nuclear fuel from the onsite expended gas pool to dry cask storage at Palisades by 2025.

“Major decommissioning do the job will commence in somewhere around 2035,” the information release states.

Right after the shutdown, the gas will keep on being on web site indefinitely, “until the federal Dept. of Strength honors it’s contractual agreement to shift the gasoline to a permanent or interim facility,” in accordance Joe Delmar of Holtec.

Holtec is currently pursuing an NRC license for a proposed interim facility in southeastern New Mexico, Delmar reported. If authorized and crafted, Holtec could transfer the gasoline from Palisades and other vegetation there. The license determination is expected mid-2021 and, if granted, a facility could be created and offered by 2024 or 2025, he stated.

If the license transfer transaction is completed, Palisades and Significant Rock Issue would be a part of Holtec’s developing fleet of decommissioning vegetation. The NRC earlier permitted License Transfer Apps for the shutdown Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in New Jersey from Exelon Corporation to Holtec and for the shutdown Pilgrim Nuclear Energy Station in Massachusetts from Entergy to Holtec, and the transfer of the Indian Issue Electricity Heart from Entergy to Holtec next shutdown of its remaining device (Indian Level Device 3), which is scheduled for April 2021.

Entergy Company is an energy corporation, and owns and operates electric power plants with close to 30,000 megawatts of electrical making capability, like 8,000 megawatts generated by nuclear electric power.

Holtec Intercontinental is a privately held electrical power know-how enterprise with operation centers in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in the U.S., and globally in Brazil, Dubai, India, South Africa, Spain, U.K., and Ukraine. Holtec’s principal organization concentration is in the nuclear energy field.

Read more:

Nuclear plant could ‘sequester’ workers to reside on-web-site below pandemic system

Kalamazoo’s law enforcement main, who ‘retired’ in September, was really fired

Kalamazoo Town Commission will consider ending non-public, compact-group meetings