To delay or not to delay - Funding adequacy assessment of decommissioning

Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management, ICEM'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1566-1575

  Devgun, Jas S ^a   Williams, Daniel G ^b  

^a SARGENT AND LUNDY LLC   (United States)

^b United States Government Accountability Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST-BASED ASSESSMENT; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; STOCHASTIC VARIABLES;

DECONTAMINATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; RADIATION HAZARDS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DECOMMISSIONING (NUCLEAR REACTORS);

EID: 33646549608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Regulatory Guide 1.184, Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Reactors, August 2000; Also, NUREG-0586 (Original Report 1988 and Supplements issued 2002), Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities, 2002.
2. National Academies - National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, The Disposition Dilemma: Controlling the Release of Solid Materials from Nuclear Regulatory Commission-Licensed Facilities, March 21, 2002.
3. th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, September 21-25, 2003, Examination School, Oxford University, Oxford, England.
4. U.S. General Accounting Office, NUCLEAR REGULATION: NRC Needs More Effective Analysis to Ensure Accumulation of Funds to Decommission Nuclear Power Plants, GAO-04-32, October 2003.
5. Global Insight (DRI-WEFA), The U.S. Economy: The 25-year Focus, Spring Issue, 2002 (updated as of January 30, 2003).
6. Daniel G. Williams, Jas S. Devgun and Dennis Demoss, "Cost-Based Assessment of Decommissioning Alternatives and Financial Strategies", Proceedings of Waste Management 05, February 27- March 3, 2005. Tucson, AZ.