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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
David F. Greenwood, Richard K. Westfahl, James W. Rymsha
Nuclear Technology | Volume 62 | Number 2 | August 1983 | Pages 190-206
Technical Paper | Economic | doi.org/10.13182/NT83-A33217
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An analysis of decommissioning cost studies compared the cost analysis presented in the 1976 National Environmental Studies Project decommissioning study with 18 other government and industry studies of the cost of decommissioning conventional light water reactor generating stations. Six major factors that contributed to the cost differences were differences in the scope of work, the level of detail of the estimate, variations in significant cost factors, inclusion/exclusion of major cost items, plant size and configuration/design differences, and site-specific factors.