The U.S. nuclear-generation fleet's steady, predictable output of spent nuclear fuel and the federal government's inability to establish a permanent geologic repository point to several decades of regular, high-value work for contractors that install dry-cask storage systems for spent fuel.
由于政府计划在20世纪20年代初建立一个或多个大规模，综合遗址的一个或多个大规模的综合网站，在20世纪20年代初，未来几年可能是安装市场，参与者和其他人在最近表示的特别积极和有利可图的时期采访。
Once the nuclear-fuel assemblies lose their ability to sustain reactions that help run plants, they are transferred to on-site spent-fuel pools for years of cooling.
With limited capacity in pools and no permanent national repository, the owners of all but a few nuclear plants already have installed on-site dry-storage systems to handle their spent-fuel overflow. There are a handful of plants without dry-storage systems, but all are planning to add them soon, said Rod McCullum, director of the used-fuels programs at the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI).
干储存系统，也称为独立的废燃料储存装置（ISFSIS），通常由三个供应商提供的大型增强混凝土焊盘和一排混凝土钢干粮：Holtec International，NAC International和Transnuclear。
There are 58 existing ISFSIs in the U.S., and that number could reach 76 in a few years, McCullum said. "We've loaded over 1,600 dry casks to date, and over the next eight years we'll load 1,400 more—a steady 150 to 200 casks a year," he said. Each cask typically can handle at least dozens of spent-fuel assemblies.
杰克哈迪表示，不断需要额外的干蓄能容量，而且不仅适用于三个购物中心的工作流程，还适用于三个桶供应商，而且还为有经验的承包商提供帮助他们开展新的ISFSIS并扩大现有的承包商。纳斯权力承包商的官员，位于伊斯加地区，洗。
"The market has been heating up," said Hardy, both to meet new on-site storage needs and in anticipation of a planned federal pilot facility that would start receiving spent fuel from retired nuclear plants in 2021 and a larger consolidated storage facility due online by 2025.
Last year, NAES did ISFSI-related work at Exelon Corp.'s Zion plant north of Chicago. This spring it will be doing the same at Nebraska Public Power District's Cooper unit near Brownville, Neb.
Hardy说，熊在整齐更多的ISFSI工作。现场活跃的其他承包商包括Joseph Jingoli＆Son，Lawrenceville，N.J.和CB＆I，林地，德克萨斯州德克萨斯州的巨人，以2月份收购了Shaw集团。jingoli＆儿子在一份声明中表示，它在大西洋中部地区近年来近年来在核发电站上安装了几个ISFSIS混凝土储存垫。“
该声明表示，花费燃料储存市场“似乎具有充满活力的未来，因为政府没有花棒的处置现场。因此，发电站将不得不适应各自的地点。”
