Report on Waste Burial Charges: Escalation of Decommissioning Waste DisposalCosts at Low-Level Waste Burial Facilities

摘要

One of the requirements placed upon nuclear power reactor licensees by the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is for the licensees to periodically adjust the estimate of the cost of decommissioning their plants, in dollars of the current year, as part of the process to provide reasonable assurance that adequate funds for decommissioning will be available when needed. This report, which is scheduled to be revised periodically, contains the development of a formula for escalating decommissioning cost estimates that is acceptable to the NRC, and contains values for the escalation of radioactive waste burial costs, by site and by year. The licenseees may use the formula, the coefficients, and the burial escalation from this report in their escalation analyses, or they may use an escalation rate at least equal to the escalation approach presented herein.