Beneficial Re-use of Decommissioned Former Nuclear Facilities
With the decision to decommission a nuclear facility, it is necessary to evaluate whether to fully demolish a facility or to re-use the facility in some capacity. This evaluation is often primarily driven by both the past mission of the site and the facility and the site's perceived future mission. In the case where the facility to be decommissioned is located within a large research or industrial complex and represents a significant resource to the site's future mission, it may be a perfect candidate to be re-used in some fashion. However, if the site is a rather remote older facility with little chance of being modified to today's standards for its re-use, the chances for its re-use will be substantially reduced. In this presentation, some specific cases of former nuclear facilities being decommissioned and re-used will be reviewed and some factors required to be considered in making this decision will be reviewed.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., Argonne, IL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 16141
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/TD/CP-93634; ON: DE97053465; TRN: US200504%%202
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1st Topical Meeting on Decommissioning, Decontamination, Reutilization of Commercial Government Facilities (ANS), Knoxville, TN (US), 09/07/1997--09/12/1997; Other Information: Supercedes report DE97053465; PBD: 1 Jun 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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