ML20155F813
| ML20155F813 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/29/1988 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML20153C000 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-88-409 PR-880629, NUDOCS 8810130394 | |
| Download: ML20155F813 (4) | |
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88 43 FOR IPNEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Joe Gilliland (Wednesday, June 29,1988)
Telephone:
817/860-8126(Office) hRC !$$UES RULES ON GENERAL REQUIREMfNTS FOR DECOPNISSIONihG NUCLEAR FACILITIES The Nuclear Regulatotv Comission is amending its regulations to include technical and financial criteria for decomissioning licensed nuclear facilities. The existing regulations cover decomissioning requirements only in a limited way.
The amended regulations deal with decortnissioning planning needs, timing, funding mechanisms and environmental review requirements.
The rules provide assurance that licensed nuclear f acilities will be decomissioned in a safe and timely manner and that adequate funds will be available for decomissioning purposes.
The amendrents apply to all NRC licensees except licensees for uraaium mill and mill tailings, low-level radioactive waste burial facilities, and high-level radioactive waste repositories, which have been addressed in separate regulatory actions.
The atendments define decoccissioring as removing from service and reducing residual radioactivity to a level that would permit release of the property for unrestricted use and termination of license.
Three acceptable decomissioning alternatives are conteeplated but not specified in the rules. They are:
DECON: under this alternative, equipment, structures, and portions of the site contaminated t:ith radioactivity would be removed or decontaminated to a level which would permit the property to be released for unrestricted use shortly af ter operations have been terminated.
it would satisfy the objective of unrestricted release of the property in a much shorter time period than the othar alternatives while protecting the health and safety of workers and merbers of the public.
SAFSTOR: under this alternative, the nuclear f acility would be placed and maintained in such a condition that it could be safely stored and decontaminated to levels which would permit release for unrestricted use at a later date. It would Le an acceptable alternative if radiation doses to workers involvert in the decomissioning process would be reduced significantly or in ceses where alscst all of the radioactivity would decay within a few months or years.
It cculd also become necessary in other cases such as a shortage of offsite radioactive waste disposal space.
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3 A number of alternative methods for assuring that funds for decomissioning--either prematurely or at the end of operations--will be available are set forth in the rules. They include:
Prepayr<nt--under this alternative, funds would be set aside, prior to (1) comencer.ent of operations, in an account segregated from other licensee funds.
Surety, insurance, or other guarantee method-this alternative includes (2) methods to guarantee, including parent company guarantees, that decemissioning costs will be paid should the licensee default.
i External sinking fund -under this alternative, funds would be set aside (3) periodically over the life of the f acility in an account segregated f rom This segregated account would be coupled with a other licensee funds.
surety guaranteeing funds for decomissioning in the event of licensee def ault unless the licensee is an electric utility.
Statement of intent by Federai, State or Local government licensees, as (4) approprirte, that funds for decomissioning will be obtained when necessary.
The new requirements will reduce the specific requirements for environmental reviews related to decomissioning by:
Providing that he decomissioning of reactors and certain materials (1) facilities will no longer require environmental impact stctements unless specifically detemined by the Comission; environmental assessments will be prepared, however.
Providing that information concerning environmental impacts will be (2) submitted by licensees as a supplement to previously developed environmental reports, The requirements for deconsnissioning, written as amendments to Parts 30, i
July 2Y,51, 70 and 72 of the MRC's regulations, will be effectiv 40 50 19 2.
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I This information has also been released by the NRC in Washington, D.C.)
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