Decommissioning planning when there`s no place to put the waste
Now that the South Carolina legislature has adjourned without authorizing availability (after June 30, 1994) of the Barnwell facility to out-of-region low-level waste (LLW), the luxury of off-site disposal for that LLW has come to an end for many nuclear power utilities. For those nuclear power utilities without access to off-site disposal for both spent nuclear fuel and LLW, how does one plan for decommissioning? For plants that are not preparing to decommission, the financial plans, at least, for decommissioning must be changed to account for the new LLW disposal situation. For plants that are actively planning, or engaged in, decommissioning the reality is that the final condition for license termination, reduction of residual radioactivity to levels permitting release of the facility, must be postponed. Our primary concern is the need for additional decommissioning planning for LLW management (such as interim on-site LLW storage) when access to a LLW disposal facility is not available.
- OSTI ID:
- 89444
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941102--
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Vol. 71; ISSN 0003-018X; ISSN TANSAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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