Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: 724f7f82-1d60-46ea-9aab-949a05da6c1d
Document Type: esrp
Title: DECOMMISSIONING
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 5
Section ID: 5.9
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rate such assurance ` 10 CFR 52.77 with respect to requirements for a combined license, including the information specified in 10 CFR 50.33 to provide a decommissioning funding plan report showing how reasonable assurance will be given that funds will be available to radiologically decommission the facility. Regulatory positions and specific criteria necessary to meet the regulations identified above are as follows: ` Standard Review Plan on Power Reactor Licensee Financial Qualifications and Decommissioning Funding Assurance (NRC 1999), which provides review procedures for verifying the information submitted by a new applicant for an operating license in the form of a report indicating how reasonable assurance will be given that funds will be available to radiologically decommission the facility. Technical Rationale The technical rationale for evaluation of the applicant’s potential impacts from the decommissioning process is discussed in the following paragraph: An applicant for a license to operate a nuclear power facility is required by 10 CFR 50.33(k) to provide a report containing a certification that financial assurance for radiological decommissioning will be provided. The amount may be based on a cost estimate for decommissioning the facility that may be more, but not less, than that given in the table in 10 CFR 50.75(c)(1). The purpose of this requirement, which is described as 10 CFR 50.75, is to ensure that a licensee will be financially able to radiologically decommission a facility when it ceases to produce power. This requirement does not apply to applications for a construction permit or an early site permit. It does apply to applica- tions for a combined license (10 CFR 52.77). Further information relating to the decommissioning October 1999 5.9-3 NUREG-1555 process (such as a description of the decommissioning process and schedule) is not required until after permanent cessation of operation and is not expected during the initial licensing or