Storage Cask Handling for Nuclear Plants and ISFSI  Storage Facilities

Wheelift transporters can be ideally adaptable to nuclear plants that need to move shielded containers and casks in confined spaces within processing facilities and ISFSI dry storage repositories. They can be equally suitable to the handling of shielded casks of radioactive materials may need to move in confined spaces within nuclear power utilities or in spent fuel processing areas in and around reactor sites.  Wheelift technology transporters are an IN-PLANT material handling system who’s only competitive handling capabilities is the heavy capacity single failure-proof overhead cranes and hoists, from firms like Ederer and Par Systems, that are otherwise required because of the constant danger and safety hazard of loads needing to be lifted high above floors where there is the inherent danger of crane failure and load drop.

Wheelift transporters bring indoors, the European specialized carriers technology that is used by virtually all of the larger steel mills, shipyards, and the major rigging and heavy haul firms in North America for IN-PLANT industrial applications.  While the well known European transporter technology carry loads weighing hundred, and even thousands, of tons down public highways and carry truly massive loads in all types of outdoor assembly operations, Wheelift transporters are designed small enough, but with equal carrying capacities, to travel in narrow aisles and move nimbly in and around highly congested indoor process operations.

Wheelift will furnish the wheel modules and computerized steering to any major specialty firms that cater to nuclear systems, such as Trans nuclear and their NUHONS systems, Holtec and their Hi-Star series equipment, or the transportation casks built by NAC International.  Or, Wheelift will furnish complete operational transporter base assemblies on which any type of container system can placed.  These ultra-heavy transporters are directly adaptable to the types of AGVs navigation technologies marketed by Siemens Dematic, Control Engineering, NDC Automation, Frog Navigation, the automated systems (AGVS) of FMC Technologies, and the component support of AGV Products and Amerden, allowing those manufacturers to offer AGs systems that can be incredibly larger capacities than have ever before been possible.