Energia i regulacje · 27.02.1998

Public Workshop: Decommissioning for Routine Materials Cases

The NRC will host a public decommissioning workshop in Rockville, Maryland, as part of a program to identify and evaluate new and different approaches to the decommissioning review process for materials licensees. This program is one of several initiatives which resulted from NRC's recent Strategic Assessment and Rebaselining Initiative, which is intended to guide future NRC decision-making and help NRC continue to meet its responsibility for protecting the public health and safety and the environment. The objectives of the workshop are to: (1) Discuss NRC's decommissioning requirements and NRC's expectations of licensees in demonstrating compliance with these requirements; (2) elicit comments, both favorable and critical, from workshop participants related to the existing decommissioning review process and procedures; (3) obtain ideas from participants on, and discuss potential improvements in, the regulatory process for decommissioning; (4) discuss plans for a pilot program to evaluate improvements to the decommissioning review process, using sites of volunteer licensees; and (5) determine licensee interest in participating in a pilot program. The NRC staff will use the comments