AREVA TN said Tuesday it had signed two long-term contracts worth more than $200 million with U.S. utilities for the supply of used fuel storage solutions.
The contracts call for supply of NUHOMS dry-shielded canisters which are designed for handling fuel assemblies from boiling water reactors and pressurized water reactors. The NUHOMS system can also handle high burn-up, short-cooled fuel, AREVA noted.
AREVA did not divulge which utilities had signed up for the contracts.
The company said AREVA TN would supply NUHOMS horizontal storage systems, which are designed to house the canisters on-site at the customer's locations.
The side-by-side concrete structures are defined by AREVA as “industry-best earthquake resistance” structures. In the United States, nearly 1,000 spent-fuel canisters are currently in use at more than 30 sites, AREVA noted.