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The Skills and Experience to Deliver Nuclear Excellence

Mike Valenzano

Transportation Project Manager

National Transportation Stakeholders Forum

June 5, 2024

Denver, CO

An Introduction to NAC International

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More than 55 Years in the Nuclear Industry

Founded in 1968
Global Provider of Fuel Cycle Technology Solutions

Engineering, Licensing and Supply of Casks and Canister solution for Spent Fuel and HLW
Packaging and Transportation of Nuclear Materials
Fuel Cycle Consulting Solutions

Corporate offices in Peachtree Corners, GA (northeast of Atlanta)
Parent company is Hitachi Zosen in Japan

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Proven Used Fuel Management Excellence

Four Decades in Used Fuel

Transportation / ILW Radioactive

Waste Transport Solutions

Over 650 Dry Storage

Systems Delivered Worldwide

Fourteen (14) Cask Systems Licensed Historically

and More than 40 International CoC Validations

Enabling Nuclear SF and HLW

Disposal Options

Deploying DOE Road Ready Dry Storage Solutions

ISP Consolidated Interim Storage Participant

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Decommissioning Dry Storage Excellence

Zion: 65 MAGNASTOR Spent & Damaged Fuel, GTCC Waste

West Valley Facility: 56 NAC-MPC

High Level Waste Systems

Kewaunee: 27 MAGNASTOR Spent & Damaged Fuel., Turnkey Services

Connecticut Yankee: 43 NAC-MPC Spent Fuel, GTCC Waste

Maine Yankee: 64 NAC-UMS Spent & Damaged Fuel, GTCC Waste

LaCrosse BWR: 5 NAC- MPC Spent & Damaged Fuel

Yankee Rowe: 16 NAC-MPC Spent Fuel and GTCC Waste

TMI: 61 MAGNASTOR Spent Fuel, GTCC, fuel debris. Turnkey Services

US DOE Hanford: 19 NAC-MPC Cs/SR Capsules

Footprint of 356 NAC dry storage systems (including GTCC) at decommissioning facilities will need transport to Consolidated Interim Storage or other destinations

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Spent Fuel & High-Level Waste Transportation Services

Owns a commercial fleet of spent fuel transportation casks (NAC-LWT & OPTIMUS®) and equipment in the United States
Safely completed more than 3,800 spent nuclear fuel shipments from more than 70 nuclear facilities worldwide

Over 7 Million Miles of Safe Nuclear Materials Transportation

More than 50 International Cask Validations for shipment of Spent Fuel
Supported implementation of the first Chinese spent fuel transport campaign using NAC-STC transport casks
Dominant package provider in support of U.S. Government Global Threat Reduction Initiative, in Repatriation of used Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) fuel from Research & Test Reactors
Recently received U.S. DOE Secretary’s Honor Awards on a Joint U.S/Canadian project NRU/NRX spent fuel packaging and transportation project.

By Sea, Rail, Road and Air

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NAC-LWT Transportation Cask

Commercial fleet of 8 legal weight truck Type B casks (NAC-LWT)
More than 50 International Cask Validations
More than 250 packaging and transport projects
More than 60 nuclear facilities worldwide.
Key role in U.S. Government Global Threat Reduction Initiative,

Repatriation/Removal of used HEU fuel from Research & Test Reactors.

Only Type B cask licensed and deployed to ship HEU liquid wastes (7g U235/L)

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Used Fuel Transportation in North America

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NAC – STC Transport Experience

NAC-STC is an ideal and proven technology for a Transportation Pilot

New contract for additional systems for an international customer (4 more for 2024 delivery).
Fleet of 12 systems now deployed routinely shipping used fuel
Only NRC-Licensed Large Transport Cask routinely shipping used fuel.
15 years of operating experience over 100 thousand miles
Although it is a rail cask, other transport modalities addressed

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MAGNATRAN Transport Cask

Transport Overpack for MAGNASTOR® Canisters
Designed with Universal Transport Capabilities in Mind – UMS/MPC Canisters
Compatible with NAC Transfer Systems for Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) Transport Readiness
CoC Revision 3 is Now Approved expanding Transport Capabilities (ModEx/High BurnUp and Content)

Leveraging NAC’s Experience for Transport Readiness and Assurance

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NAC OPTIMUS® Packages

OPTIMUS®-L

OPTIMUS®-H

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OPTIMUS®-H – Transportation Solution for CANDU Spent Fuel

NAC’s OPTIMUS®-H (OPTImal Modular Universal Shipping) cask is certified by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to ship CANDU spent fuel (2 “basket” capacity)
NAC contracted with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to ship CANDU spent fuel in 2024 to support CNL’s spent fuel consolidation initiative (using 4 OPTIMUS®-H)

Transportation Solutions for both LWR and CANDU Spent Fuel

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Continue to expand NAC’s nuclear materials packaging and transportation capabilities

Privately owned fleet of 10 lidded IP-1 gondola railcars, 36 ABC railcars, and 200+ IP-1 25.4 yd³ IMCs.
Specialty equipment to transport radioactive, hazardous, and industrial materials
Multimodal systems combine intermodal, rail, truck, and marine conveyances
Direct Rail Transport or Overweight and oversize shipments
Type B cask expansion – OPTIMUS® fleet
Low level radioactive/hazardous waste characterization, packaging, brokering, disposal

End-to-End Solutions for Nuclear Materials Shipping Directly Applicable to Large Scale Used Fuel Transport

Expansion and Growth through Selective Acquisitions

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NAC Philotechnics, Ltd.

In November of 2022, NAC International Inc. acquired a health physics, radiological services, and waste management company headquartered in Oak Ridge, TN with a satellite facility in San Diego, CA. The company, now under NAC International ownership, has been renamed NAC Philotechnics, Ltd.
NAC Philotechnics is a full-scope radiological services company providing mixed and radioactive waste processing and brokerage, MARSSIM D&D, facility/site release for unrestricted use, license termination, field services, and health physics support; including, characterization, shipping, and disposal services. NAC Philotechnics operates two fixed-base Radioactive Materials Licensed processing and material storage facilities in Oak Ridge, TN and San Diego, CA.
NAC Philotechnics has successfully performed over 100 decommissioning projects, with zero rejections of Final Status Survey Reports.

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Niagara Energy Products, Inc.

NAC International Inc. recently acquired substantially all of the assets of Niagara Energy Products Inc. (NEP), a leading manufacturer of pressure boundary components as well as radioactive waste containers for transportation, interim storage, final disposal, and every stage in between.
Establishes a Canadian subsidiary for NAC (NEP is headquartered in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, with additional facilities in Fort Erie and Brantford, Ontario).
NEP has a long history with the nuclear, defense, industrial, and extractive industries (Established in 1960s)
Over 220,000 ft² of manufacturing, warehousing and laydown facilities
NEP has supplies self supporting, shielded, composite, spent fuel and many other similar stackable, metal (steel, lead, etc.) and composite isotope, HLW, ILW, and LLW containers and overpacks. NEP is an established reactor component supplier for ongoing CANDU refurbishments.
NEP is the Leading Shielded Container Supplier in Canada with more than 5,000 Containers delivered – more than 3,400 CANDU Spent Fuel DSCs.
NAC now the only company that provides dry storage solutions for both LWR and CANDU spent nuclear fuel

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Questions?

Learn more: www.nacintl.com

Mike Valenzano

Transportation Project Manager

T: (678) 328-1213

C: (404) 218-7753

E: mvalenzano@nacintl.com