ML20058L516

Advises That Request Will Be Made to State of Tx Legislature for Appropriation of Funds for Decommissioning & Decontamination of Nuclear Science Ctr Reactor After Future Decision for Final Shut Down Made

ML20058L516
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Site:	05000128
Issue date:	07/09/1990
From:	Hall K TEXAS A&M UNIV., COLLEGE STATION, TX
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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Reference:

Docket No. 50-128-Facility License No. D-83

Subject:

Availability of Funds for Future Decommissioning of the Nuclear Science Center Reactor as Per the Reporting Requirements. of .10CFRSO.33(k)

Gentlemen:

Certification is herewith given by the Texas- Engineering Experiment-Station ILicensee) that a request will'be- made to the State of Texas Legislature for the appropriation of funds forthe decommissioning and decontamination of the Nuclear Science Center Reactor. (NSCR) once a future decision for final shutdown is made. The cost estimate for decommissioning the NSCR in FY-90' dollars is 4.3 rnillion. This estimate is based on a cost study for decommissioning.the Washin0 ton State University reactor facility conducted by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in February 1988. The cost estimate for the 1 MW TRIGA WSU reactor was 3.842 million FY-88 dollars. This figure has been adjusted

Upward for the NSCR due to a significant difference in building structures

~for, the, two facilities. It will be necessary to shore up the NSCR-building structure prior to the removal of any reactor pool shielding as all floor levels of the facility are tied to the concrete pool wall structure. The estimated ' decommissioning figure of 4.3 million FY-90 dollars for the s~

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Sincerely, Kenneth R. Hall, Deputy Director Texas Engineering Experiment Station xc: Dr. H.H. Richardson, Director, TEES Dr. K.L. Peddicord, Assistant Director, TEES Mr. F.- Jennings, Chairman, Reactor Safety Board' Mr. T. Michaels, Project Manager, USNRC, Washington, D.C.

Mr. D.E. Feltz, Director, Nuclear Science Center Sworn to before me the undersigned authority this Y day of .

1990.

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