Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC
1 Holtec Boulevard , Camden, New Jersey, United States

Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI) is dedicated to the safe and efficient decommissioning of shuttered nuclear plants. CDI’s goal is the timely retirement of nuclear power plants by applying today’s innovative technologies toward a safer and more predictable decommissioning program.    Headquartered in Camden, New Jersey, CDI is a joint venture of Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC). The organization serves as the decommissioning general contractor for Holtec’s fleet of shutdown nuclear plants.   Within CDI, Holtec and SNC-Lavalin possess a combined 60 years’ expertise in decommissioning project management, nuclear fuel handling and site remediation. Holtec supplies spent nuclear fuel services to more than 115 nuclear plants worldwide and performs all dry storage work with its expert in-house resources. The SNC-Lavalin team has experience decommissioning plants like Big Rock Point and Zion in the United States, the Magnox plants in the United Kingdom and multiple research reactors in Canada.  The safe decommissioning of nuclear power plants requires complex project planning and project management, specialized nuclear skills, proven processes and innovative technologies. CDI encompasses all of these attributes and, backed by the financial strength of the partner companies, is positioned to lead the way in executing safe and efficient decommissioning projects.

Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI) was formed in 2018 with the express purpose of creating a company to provide all-encompassing project solutions for the safe and efficient decommissioning of retired nuclear power plants.   Based in Camden, New Jersey, CDI draws on its partners’ financial strength, safety commitment and 60 years’ experience, and expertise in decommissioning and site remediation to help return the plant site to productive use sooner (excluding the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation). Subject to oversight by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the used fuel will remain safe and secure at the sites and will be monitored during shutdown and decommissioning until the U.S. Department of Energy removes it, in accordance with its legal obligations. By leveraging strong financial histories, technical and project management capabilities and innovation through first-to-market technologies, CDI has positioned itself as a solution provider and leader in this exciting and growing market.

Decommissioning

Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI) is dedicated to the safe, efficient, and compliant decommissioning of shuttered nuclear plants. CDI is a joint venture of Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) headquartered in Camden, New Jersey. CDI’s focus is performing accelerated decommissioning of retired nuclear power plants using innovative technologies to cut the total time elapsed to release plant sites for unrestricted use to six to eight years, pending regulatory approvals (with the exception of the temporary dry storage installation).  The safe deconstruction of nuclear power plants requires complex project planning and project management, specialized nuclear skills, proven processes and innovative technologies. CDI encompasses all of these attributes and, backed by the financial strength of the partner companies, is positioned to lead the way in decommissioning and spent fuel storage.  Holtec and SNC-Lavalin both boast long histories of strong financial performance and portfolios of first-to-market technologies. Both companies bring to CDI a legacy of safe nuclear operations, quality performance, and on-time project delivery. CDI provides a comprehensive solution to reactor decontamination and decommissioning, bringing technology and innovation to fuel management and facilities’ deconstruction.  CDI, the joint venture company, is committed to the enhancement of the communities in which it operates. Employing financially sustainable business practices, CDI ensures the upholding of obligations made as a trusted steward of legacy nuclear materials.

Experience

Comprehensive Decommissioning International (CDI) is backed by decades of experience through its corporate parents, Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin.   Holtec clients span the globe; over 115 nuclear plants rely on Holtec’s dry storage technology for their storage and transportation needs. Holtec’s wet and dry storage and transport systems provide confinement, radiation shielding, structural integrity, criticality control, and heat removal for used nuclear fuel. Holtec remains the world leader in spent nuclear fuel storage technology design and implementation and has supplied over $4 billion of nuclear power plant components since the late 1980s.   SNC-Lavalin (SNCL) brings significant U.S. decommissioning expertise in both commercial and government markets. This expertise includes the baseline planning, license transfer, project delivery through fuel transfer, and reactor segmentation at the Zion station.  This team also managed the United Kingdom’s fleet of 22 Magnox reactors through operation and into decommissioning.  More recently, SNCL has enjoyed success safely progressing cleanup efforts at Fukushima Dai-ichi in Japan, the Ringhals Units 1&2 in Sweden and the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor in Canada.

Through its subsidiaries (including joint venture companies) SNCL has performed over 100 waste cleanup, decommissioning and site remediation projects for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Defense. SNCL’s portfolio contains site management, engineering and services including:

• Decommissioning and site closure plan development
• Historical Site Assessments and D&D cost estimation
• Providing radiation protection and radioactive waste staff and expertise
• Characterization of environment, facilities, and components
• Remediation operations, including decontamination, demolition, and debris/soil removal, packaging, transportation, and disposal
• Large component removal, engineering, licensing activities, transportation, processing, and disposal
• Operation of onsite waste management and volume reduction activities
• On-site bulk assay for demolition debris and rubble
• Cleanup of sites to end-point criteria; final status surveys to allow for unrestricted release; implementation of MARSSIM guidelines
  Site restoration

Experience

Comprehensive Decommissioning International (CDI) is backed by decades of experience through its corporate parents, Holtec International and SNC-Lavalin.   Holtec clients span the globe; over 115 nuclear plants rely on Holtec’s dry storage technology for their storage and transportation needs. Holtec’s wet and dry storage and transport systems provide confinement, radiation shielding, structural integrity, criticality control, and heat removal for used nuclear fuel. Holtec remains the world leader in spent nuclear fuel storage technology design and implementation and has supplied over $4 billion of nuclear power plant components since the late 1980s.   SNC-Lavalin (SNCL) brings significant U.S. decommissioning expertise in both commercial and government markets. This expertise includes the baseline planning, license transfer, project delivery through fuel transfer, and reactor segmentation at the Zion station.  This team also managed the United Kingdom’s fleet of 22 Magnox reactors through operation and into decommissioning.  More recently, SNCL has enjoyed success safely progressing cleanup efforts at Fukushima Dai-ichi in Japan, the Ringhals Units 1&2 in Sweden and the Nuclear Power Demonstration (NPD) reactor in Canada.