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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or licensees using site-specific decommissioning cost estimates (i.e., non-power production or utilization DG-1348 Revision 1, Page 14 facility licensees, power reactor licensees not covered by 10 CFR 50.75(c) or exercising their option to submit a site-specific decommissioning cost estimate, or for licensees submitting preliminary or proposed decommissioning plans pursuant to 10 CFR 50.75(f) and 10 CFR 50.82(a)), new cost-estimate studies should be conducted periodically to determine whether the estimate reflects cost changes from inflation or other factors. In no case, however, should site-specific decommissioning cost estimates be lower than the formula amounts in 10 CFR 50.75(c). As an alternative to performing new site-specific decommissioning cost estimates, licensees may use standard measures of price indexing, such as the annual Consumer Price Index published by U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, or the inflation factor derived from the Implicit Price Deflator for the Gross National Product as published in the “Survey of Current Business,” by the U.S. Department of Commerce, or in “Economic Indicators,” by the Council of Economic Advisors. The licensee may also use the factors indicated in Regulatory Position C.1.2 for escalating the principal components of the cost estimate. Estimates of future inflation should bear a reasonable relationship to recent (i.e., within 10 years) economic performance or other relevant economic conditions and factors. The licensee should document the bases for all estimates of past and future inflation. 1.4.2 Technological and Status Changes For site-specific decommissioning cost estimates, the effect of technological changes or changes in plant status (e.g., whether the plant has been shut down for an extended period) on the cost estimate should be determined. This could include reasonably determined recent developments in decontamination, waste processing and disposal, or cutting equipment and other