Holtec can resume loading spent fuel into San Onofre storage vaults: NRC

摘要

Holtec can resume the loading of spent fuel canisters into storagevaults at Southern California Edison's permanently shut San Onofreplant, nine months after this activity was suspended, NRC said in astatement May 21.Fuel transfers into the vaults was suspended in August after“a loaded spent fuel storage canister that was misaligned ... becamestuck on a flange while being lowered into a storage vault,” the agencysaid (NF, 6 May, 5).NRC cited Holtec April 26 for two violations of agency regulationsrelated to the incident that the agency ranked as severity level III andIV. NRC categorizes violations on a four-level scale in which severitylevel I violations are the most serious, with those rated at severity levelIV representing minor violations.