An analysis of decommissioning costs for the AFRRI TRIGA reactor facility
- Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Bethesda, MD (United States)
A decommissioning cost analysis for the AFRRI TRIGA Reactor Facility was made. AFRRI is not at this time suggesting that the AFRRI TRIGA Reactor Facility be decommissioned. This report was prepared to be in compliance with paragraph 50.33 of Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations which requires the assurance of availability of future decommissioning funding. The planned method of decommissioning is the immediate decontamination of the AFRRI TRIGA Reactor site to allow for restoration of the site to full public access - this is called DECON. The cost of DECON for the AFRRI TRIGA Reactor Facility in 1990 dollars is estimated to be $3,200,000. The anticipated ancillary costs of facility site demobilization and spent fuel shipment is an additional $600,000. Thus the total cost of terminating reactor operations at AFRRI will be about $3,800,000. The primary basis for this cost estimate is a study of the decommissioning costs of a similar reactor facility that was performed by Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) as provided in USNRC publication NUREG/CR-1756. The data in this study were adapted to reflect the decommissioning requirements of the AFRRI TRIGA. (author)
- Research Organization:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21141226
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-09N0043; TOC-23; TRN: US09N0072020863
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 12. U.S. TRIGA users conference, Austin, TX (United States), 11-14 Mar 1990; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); 3 refs, 3 figs, 5 tabs; Related Information: In: 12. U.S. TRIGA users conference. Papers and abstracts, 328 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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