PG&E gets license to operate Isfsi

Washington (Platts)--22Mar2004

NRC has issued Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) a license to operate an independent spent fuel storage installation (Isfsi) at Diablo Canyon. NRC said that PG&E intends to transfer spent fuel from pools to the new Isfsi, which will use a version of Holtec International's Hi-Storm 100 dry-cask storage system. The new Isfsi will provide sufficient spent fuel storage capacity to support the continued operation of the two reactors until the current operating licenses expire in September 2021 for unit 1 and April 2025 for unit 2, NRC said. Several groups have challenged the commission's October 2003 order upholding an NRC licensing board's decision not to grant evidentiary hearings on the Isfsi application.