Lessons learned from commercial experience with nuclear plant decontamination to safe storage
The Department of Energy (DOE) has successfully performed decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) on many production reactors it. DOE now has the challenge of performing D&D on a wide variety of other nuclear facilities. Because so many facilities are being closed, it is necessary to place many of them into a safe-storage status before conducting D&D-for perhaps as much as 20 yr. The challenge is to achieve this safe-storage condition in a cost-effective manner while remaining in compliance with applicable regulations. The DOE Office of Environmental Management, Office of Transition and Management, commissioned a lessons learned study of commercial experience with safe storage and transition to D&D. Although the majority of the commercial experience has been with reactors, many of the lessons learned presented in this paper are directly applicable to transitioning the DOE Weapons Complex.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 10103408
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-94-3724; CONF-941102-36; ON: DE95003719; TRN: 95:000375
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Winter meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS),Washington, DC (United States),13-18 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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