Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: c8ab765a-d7cc-47c7-86a2-0406e48bca9e
Document Type: esrp
Title: IRREVERSIBLE AND IRRETRIEVABLE COMMITMENTS OF RESOURCES
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 10
Section ID: 10.2
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cific materials data supplied by the applicant. NUREG-1555 10.2-4 October 1999 (4) Consult with the reviewer for ESRP 10.1 and with appropriate ESRP Chapters 4.0 and 5.0 reviewers to ensure that staff conclusions with respect to the irreversibility of environmental commitments are appropriate and can be supported. (5) Consider irreversible commitments as they may apply to the following categories: ` land use ` hydrological and water use ` ecological - terrestrial - aquatic ` socioeconomic ` radiological ` atmospheric and meteorological. (6) Ensure that the irretrievable commitments of material resources identified by the applicant are reasonable and consistent with the basic data of Table 10.2-1. (7) Ensure that any other material resources identified by the reviewers of ESRP Chapters 4.0 and 5.0 have been included. ` Permanent resource commitments include land and uranium. ` The generic table provided in 10 CFR 51.51 identifies the environmental effects of the uranium fuel cycle for inclusion in the utilities’ environmental report and provides information about uranium and related resources used in making nuclear fuel. (8) Ensure that the statement in the “Evaluation Findings” of this ESRP, with respect to uranium availability, has been updated to reflect current U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) resource analyses. IV. EVALUATION FINDINGS The reviewer should prepare a summary of irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources as the EIS input. The input should consist of a brief paragraph describing any environmental commitments and a table similar to Table 10.2-1 describing material commitments. The reviewer should include the following statement, updated as necessary to reflect the current DOE resource analysis: U.S. Department of Energy resource estimates indicate that sufficient uranium resources exist in the United States to fuel all operating reactors, reactors under construction, and reactors being planned for the next 10 years at a U3O8 cost