Economic risk of contamination cleanup costs resulting from large nonreactor nuclear material licensee operations

Technical Report · Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7203167· OSTI ID:7203167

Philbin, J S ^[1]; Saloio, J H ^[2]; Rollstin, J ^[3]

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1. Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
2. ERC Environmental and Energy Services Co., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
3. GRAM, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (USA)

Several potential incident scenarios involving the accidental release of radioactive material at five reference, nonreactor nuclear material licensees are analyzed in this report. The economic risk ($/licensee/yr) of decontamination is evaluated for each reference licensee. Although most releases and cleanup costs are minor, some less frequent incidents may result in very high cleanup costs that dominate the economic risk of decontamination of a particular licensee. The economic risk for the 5 plants ranged from a low of $14,000 per licensee per year to a high of $104,000 per licensee per year. This report is the second of two reports by Sandia National Laboratories on the economic risk of nonreactor nuclear material licensee operations. 40 refs., 21 figs., 31 tabs.

• Research Organization: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (USA). Div. of Low-Level Waste Management and Decommissioning; Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States); ERC Environmental and Energy Services Co., Albuquerque, NM (USA); GRAM, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: USNRC
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 7203167
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-5381; SAND-89-1302; ON: TI90009009; TRN: 90-011404
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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