GNS Experience of CASTORâ Cask Loading for Storage and Transport of Spent Fuel Assemblies

With over 25 years of experience in the design, manufacturing, assembly and loading of CASTOR® casks, GNS is one of the worldwide leading suppliers of casks for the transport and storage of spent fuel assemblies as well as for canisters with vitrified high level wastes. GNS products are used at around 30 sites worldwide for a wide range of inventories from pressurized and boiling water reactor fuels (PWR and BWR), thorium high-temperature reactor fuels (THTR) and research reactor fuels to vitrified high-active wastes (HAW) from reprocessing plants. On behalf of its shareholders, the major German utilities, GNS assists in the loading and dispatch of CASTOR® casks as well as their storage at interim storage facilities and interim storage areas and performs the operations respectively.