NRC and Holtec to face off publicly over redesign of spent fuel canisters at San Onofre plant
As Southern California Edison gears up to resume loading spent nuclear fuel into its “concrete monolith” at San Onofre, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to publicly spank contractor Holtec International for failures related to a redesign of the waste canisters – a redesign that caught the NRC, and Edison, by surprise.
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Jim Hamilton
Jim Hamilton is the Executive Director of The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative.
Jim has over twenty-years of experience managing the entire life-cycle (siting, design, permitting, construction, closure, decommissioning, remediation and redevelopment) of large-scale manufacturing, energy and infrastructure facilities throughout North, Central and South America.