Draft2:Holtec International
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Holtec International® (Holtec), a Delaware corporation, is a global turnkey supplier of equipment and systems for the Nuclear, Solar, Geothermal, and Fossil Power Generation sectors of the energy industry. As a fully integrated supplier, Holtec possesses in-house capabilities to design, engineer, analyze, construct, and deploy the technologies offered by the company; this includes technologies to manage used nuclear fuel and waste discharged from nuclear reactors, and wet and dry (air cooled) heat transfer equipment for commercial power plants.
Company history with DOE
- It is part of Idaho Environmental Coalition, LLC.
- https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/10/f56/HI-STORE-CISF-A-Consolidated-Interim-Storage-Facility-for-Spent-Nuclear-Fuel-and-HLW.pdf
- https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2020/05/f74/Advanced-Reactor-Types_Fact-Sheet_Draft_Hi-Res_R1.pdf
- https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-awards-26-million-support-consent-based-siting-spent-nuclear-fuel
Small Modular Reactors
SMR, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtec International, whose mission includes establishing management of reactor projects and promoting global acceptance of the SMR-160 small modular reactor design. As the SMR-160 design fully relies on natural convection for maintaining coolant flow -- eliminating the need for coolant pumps and external coolant loops inherent to conventional pressurized water reactor designs -- it raises operational challenges related to neutronics of the steady state core and its thermal-hydraulics. This GAIN voucher-supported work was to analyze reactor core and system behavior in response to anticipated transients and accident scenarios. It also provided an opportunity for the SMR-160 team to use the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA) code suite, which employs multi-physics simulation to model feedback behavior in the reactor core. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated past expertise with the VERA code suite and supports new emerging designs by applying VERA capabilities.
The work was conducted in four phases. A VERA model was created using information provided by Holtec. Comparisons between VERA and the Holtec system analysis tools were conducted, followed by hot zero power and hot full power comparisons. The third phase was to compare VERA with the Holtec tools for depletion calculations from all five cycles. The fourth phase involved simulating a main steam line break and a rod ejection accident with VERA and the Holtec tools, to confirm the accuracy of the Holtec tools for a rapidly evolving transient. In both cases, VERA was used to generate pin-level data that could not be generated by the Holtec tool. The pin-level data are useful for determining whether there is any potential for fuel failure during the transient.[1]
Contact information
https://holtecinternational.com/contact-us/
External links
Social media
- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC76KA6aBJ3lYmbsc5uSBXaw
- Twitter - https://twitter.com/holtecintl
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/holtecinternational/
- LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/holtec-international
- and other social media sites
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