Supply of casks and canisters for spent fuel dry storage

Hitachi Zosen has long experience of development, design, analysis, fabrication, test, inspection, and delivery on spent fuel casks more than three decades and also has long experience of fabrication, test, inspection and delivery on spent fuel dry storage canisters for 15 years. Since Hitachi Zosen developed and delivered its first spent fuel transport cask in Japan in 1978, 600 casks and canisters have been delivered to not only Japanese utilities but also US utilities. Over three decades experience, innovations and technologies have been introduced to fabrication process to supply casks and canisters for spent fuel transportation and dry storage. Hitachi Zosen will continue to supply casks and canisters to support spent fuel transportation and dry storage. For future prospect beyond the spent fuel transportation and dry storage, Hitachi Zosen is considering to supply geological disposal canisters to dispose of spent fuels and high level waste with accumulated fabrication experience and technologies over three decades.