Decommissioning and decontamination of nuclear facilities. Report prepared for the Subcommittee on the Environment and the Atmosphere of the Committee on Science and Technology, U. S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session
This Committee Print is based upon hearings held before the Subcommittee on the Environment and the Atmosphere on decommissioning, decontamination, and nuclear waste disposal problems associated specifically with a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at West Valley, N.Y., and generically with all types of nuclear facilities. The report stresses the importance of further research into the following questions about decommissioning and decontamination: what technical options are available, who will pay the cost, how they will be financed, and who is institutionally responsible for seeing that the job is properly done. Thus, it serves to recapitulate the need for two studies, one on West Valley alternatives and the other on various aspects of decommissioning and decontaminating nuclear facilities, which are authorized by S. 1811, the fiscal year 1978 ERDA Authorization Act. The report is written in four chapters, with chapter I containing introductory information concerning the subject of decontamination and decommissioning of nuclear facilities, relevant legislation, and the structure and purpose of the hearings. What follows is a more detailed discussion of the waste disposal and related problems at West Valley, N.Y. (ch. II), and of the generic study of decommissioning and decontamination of nuclear fuel elements (ch. III). Included within these two chapters are brief summaries of the major concerns of the witnesses; the hearings are to be published in full elsewhere. Chapter IV contains the committee's findings and recommendations based on the hearings.
- OSTI ID:
- 6523001
- Resource Relation:
- Related Information: Serial S
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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POLICY AND ECONOMY
DECOMMISSIONING
HEARINGS
DECONTAMINATION
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
WEST VALLEY PROCESSING PLANT
CORROSION
FINANCING
FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS
LEAKS
LEGAL ASPECTS
LIQUID WASTES
NEW YORK
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
CLEANING
MANAGEMENT
MID-ATLANTIC REGION
NORTH AMERICA
STORAGE
USA
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE STORAGE
WASTES
WEAPONS
290600* - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy