ML20059K223
| ML20059K223 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 05000199 |
| Issue date: | 09/14/1990 |
| From: | Berlin R MANHATTAN COLLEGE, RIVERDALE, NY |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9009210226 | |
| Download: ML20059K223 (2) | |
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Document Control Desk U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 subject:
Future Decommissioning of the Manhattan College Zero Power Reactor (MCZPR)
Dear Sir 10 CFR 50.33(K) and 50.75 establish reporting requirements f
for licensees to demonstrate how reasonable assurance will be provided that funds will be available to decommission the facil-ity.
As described in Regulatory Guide 1.159 " Assuring the Avail-ability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors",
non-electric-utility licensees'are to base the estimate of funds on a= cost estimate for decommissioning the facility (reactar).
We have reviewed the basis for developing the cost estimate l
' described in section 1.4 of~ Regulatory Guide 1.159 as it would apply to the MC"PR.
The following factors are relevant to the cost of decommissioning:
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- Because of the negligible burnup and very low radiation j
levels there are no radioactive structures in the MCZPR, and none will exist when the facility is decommissioned.
i In the course of the recent removal of HEU. fuel from the reactor and follow up maintenance a-survey was made of fuel elements and reactor structure which showed resid-ual radioactivity and occupational exposure levels to be well within Regulatory Guide 1.86 standards 'and Spr/hr at 1 meter.
In addition routine radiation and contam-ination surveys of the facility performed by our outside health physicist show the levels.to be negligible and well within these= limits.
- Thus the decommissioning of the reactor facility will not require any decentamination, nor will radioactive waste be generated requiring disposal.
- It would. be anticipated that the final radiation survey would be routinely conducted by the outside health phys-icist (or equivalent).
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i As defined in section 1.4, the decommissioning costs at the MCZPR would be essentially negligible and it is not felt that any decommissioning funding vehicle is required.
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