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Focus on Holtec

Holtec International is a global turnkey supplier of equipment and services for the Nuclear, Solar, Geothermal, and Fossil Power Generation sectors of the energy and petrochemical industry. As a fully integrated supplier, Holtec possesses in-house capabilities to design, engineer, analyze, construct, license, and deploy the technologies offered by the company; this includes technologies to manage used nuclear fuel and waste discharged from nuclear reactors and wet and dry (air cooled) heat transfer equipment for commercial power plants. Holtec is also developing a Small Modular Reactor (SMR), which will provide for modular, distributed, carbon-free, base-load energy.

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