Absolute Consulting, with its depth of experience and technical experts, is well qualified in the main three segments of decommissioning. These areas of expertise are decommissioning preparedness and project development, implementation and site closure.
Dry cask storage and decommissioning is one of the major services offered by Absolute Consulting. We can recommend appropriate cask technology designers and manufacturers capable of performing field installation and provide license termination and implementing reduction plans. Absolute Consulting provides safe, efficient, cost-effective solutions to its clients’ dry cask and decommissioning challenges.
Some of our value-added dry cask and decommissioning services include:
- Development and management of procedures, programs and policies for dry fuel storage projects
- Engineering, scheduling and project management for dry fuel storage projects
- Developing a cask handling guide for EPRI
- Pre-operational assessment and readiness review
- Fuel inspection and characterization
- Procedure development, review, validation and training
- Design, manufacturing, construction and engineering oversight and surveillance
- Mitigation and contingency planning
- Ancillary equipment identification set-up, testing and operations
- 10CFR 72.212 evaluations
- 10CFR 72.48 determinations
- 10CFR 71&72 program development and implementation
- License termination and reduction plans
- Waste characterization for domestic and international projects
- Canister loading operations
Absolute Consulting has served a number of nuclear power plants in different areas of dry cask and decommissioning. Listed below are just a few:
Perry Nuclear Plant – provided ISFSI program support services.
Florida Power & Light – provided ISFSI licensing, training, procedure development and engineering services.
St. Lucie Nuclear Plant – ISFSI construction and dry fuel storage operations, project management, engineering, licensing and training services among others.
Seabrook Nuclear Station – provided management and engineering work.
Cooper Nuclear Power Plant – provided QA oversight for ISFSI project.
British Nuclear Group UK, Bradwell Nuclear Power Plant – provided waste characterization, inventory and database development.
ABZ, Inc. – supplied experts for the company’s dry fuel storage cases.
Trojan Nuclear Power Plant – provided scheduling support for plant decommissioning.
Ginna Nuclear Station – provided project management services.
Yankee Rowe Nuclear Power Plant – wrote ISFSI operations manual and procedures.
Florida Power & Light Company – supported dry fuel storage project including engineering, licensing, scheduling and procedure writing for the plan development, site selection, cask selection and design and construction of required plant upgrades.
Seabrook Nuclear Station – licensing support and Crane upgrades.
