Holtec submits license application for interim storage facility

摘要

Holtec International on March 31 submitted a license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a consolidated interim storage (CIS) facility for spent nuclear fuel at a site in southeastern New Mexico. Holtec is seeking the license under 10 CFR Part 72. Holtec first announced its intention to develop a storage facility in April 2015, when it signed a memorandum of agreement with New Mexico's Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance (ELEA) to license, construct, and operate the facility (NN, June 2015, p. 60). A consortium of Eddy and Lea Counties and the cities of Carlsbad and Hobbs, ELEA would host the storage facility, which Holtec calls the HI-STORE CIS, at a 1,000-acre site the alliance owns midway between Carlsbad and Hobbs. The site is about 12 miles from the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.