Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 94d9f3d5-978d-4aea-9ba7-486ca7f8503a
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Standard Format and Content of Decommissioning Cost Estimates for Nuclear Power Reactors
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0131/ML013100099.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.202
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regulatory guide. Regulations applicable to the funding of spent fuel storage are in 10 CFR 50.54(bb). Regulations applicable to an ISFSI facility are in 10 CFR Part 72, “Licensing Requirements for the Independent Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High- Level Radioactive Waste.” Site restoration activities that do not involve residual radioactivity are outside the scope of NRC regulation. Regulatory guides are issued to describe and make available to the public such information as methods acceptable to the NRC staff for implementing specific parts of the NRC's regulations, techniques used by the staff in evaluating specific problems or 3 postulated accidents, and data needed by the NRC staff in its review of applications for permits and licenses. Regulatory guides are not substitutes for regulations, and compliance with them is not required. Regulatory guides are issued in draft form for public comment to involve the public in the early stages of developing regulatory positions. Draft regulatory guides have not received complete staff review, do not represent an official NRC position, and are subject to change after comments from the public have been received. The information collections contained in this draft regulatory guide are covered by the requirements of 10 CFR Part 50, which were approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); approval number 3150-0011. If a means used to impose an information collection does not display a currently valid OMB control number, the NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, the information collection. B. DISCUSSION There are three basic methods for decommissioning: DECON, SAFSTOR, and ENTOMB. NUREG-0586, “Final Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities” (Ref. 1), evaluated the environmental impact of these three methods. The supplemental information to the 1988 decommissioning rule (53 FR 24019) also discussed these three methods. A short