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Comment on “ID: NRC-2015-0270-0002 List of Approved Spent Fuel Storage Casks: Holtec International HI-STORM 100 Cask System; Certificate of Compliance No. 1014, Amendment No. 10” here: https://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=NRC-2015-0270-0002 by 13 April 2016, 11.59 PM, ET. This includes all day on the 13th, NY-DC (Eastern), minus one minute.

Over the course of now 16 years, Holtec has gotten 10 exemption “Amendments” on its Certificate of Compliance (CoC) for its Hi-Storm 100 spent NUCLEAR fuel cask system. Over the last couple of years, each amendment has had one revision, and there are multiple changes within each Amendment and revision. The tendency appears to be avoiding quality assurance and testing. The number of Holtec “exemptions” for the Holtec High Storm 100 can thus be estimated as in the 60 to 100 range.

Note the comparatively small size and poor location of the passive cooling vents (small holes at top and bottom).

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