Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Disposal of The S1C Prototype Reactor Plant

Résumé

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Naval Reactors (Naval Reactors) announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality regulations for implementing NEPA (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508) and the DOE NEPA regulations (10 CFR Part 1021), and to conduct a public scoping meeting. This Environmental Impact Statement will address final disposal of the S1C Prototype reactor plant, located in Windsor, Connecticut. Naval Reactors is preparing this Environmental Impact Statement to focus on the potential for significant environmental impacts and to consider reasonable alternatives. The preferred alternative is prompt dismantlement of the S1C Prototype reactor plant and disposal of the resulting radioactive waste at a DOE radioactive waste disposal site. Naval Reactors also will evaluate a deferred dismantlement alternative, where the reactor plant would be maintained in protective storage for 30 years to allow most of the radioactivity in the reactor plant to decay before it is dismantled, and the ``no action'' alternative, where the reactor pla