Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 8ebf2253-f3d2-4bcd-ac80-7cbf6ab8d420
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Assuring the Availability of Funds for Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors + HISTORY –HISTORY 02/2022 – DG-1348 Revision 1, Proposed Revision 3 06/2018 – DG-1348 , Proposed Revision 3 11/2016 – Periodic Review of Revision 2 – Reviewed with no issues identified 01/2011 – DG-1229 , Proposed Revision 2 05/2001 – DG-1106 , Proposed Revision 1 05/1989 – DG-1003 , Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2134/ML21347A081.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-05
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Section ID: RG-1.159
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e of decommissioning funding as required by 10 CFR 50.75(b)(5). If an external sinking fund is being used, the proposed amount of annual (or more frequent) payments should be provided. 1.1.2 Non-power Production or Utilization Facility and Fuel Reprocessing Plant Applicants and Licensees For non-power production or utilization facility and fuel reprocessing plant applicants and licensees, the amount of funds is to be based on a cost estimate for decommissioning the facility and submitted to the NRC in a report required by 10 CFR 50.33(k). The cost estimate for decommissioning the facility need not be an exact accounting of the actual cost of decommissioning but rather an estimate of the costs for decommissioning. NUREG/CR-1756 may be used, as applicable, by applicants or licensees for initial cost estimates, with suitable adjustments to account for the site-specific differences as discussed in Regulatory Positions C.1.4.2 and C.1.4.3. The level of detail necessary to support the cost estimate is discussed in Regulatory Position C.1.3. DG-1348 Revision 1, Page 12 1.2 Adjustments to Certification Amounts For power reactor applicants and licensees, certification amounts described in Regulatory Position C.1.1 are to be adjusted annually, based on 10 CFR 50.75(b) and (c)(2), and should be available for NRC inspection, as requested. The adjustment factors in 10 CFR 50.75(c)(2) are 0.65L+0.13E+0.22B, where L, E, and B are escalation factors for labor, energy, and waste burial costs respectively. Although these adjustments are to be made annually, they need not be submitted to the NRC. Applicants and licensees should use the latest available version of NUREG-1307 for timely examples of determining adjustments to certified amounts. Because this formula does not provide for estimates of future inflation but only of inflation that has already occurred, licensees should recalculate the certification amount each year using the previous year’s data, as described in 10 CFR