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NRC Needs More Effective Analysis to Ensure Accumulation of Funds to Decommission Nuclear Power Plants
Author | US GAO |
6-01-0-10-70.pdf | |
Date | October 2003 |
Classification | 6.01.0.10/70 (COSTS) |
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United States General Accounting Office GAO Report to the Honorable Edward J. Markey, House of Representatives October 2003 NUCLEAR REGULATION NRC Needs More Effective Analysis to Ensure Accumulation of Funds to Decommission Nuclear Power Plants GAO-04-32 a October 2003 NUCLEAR REGULATION NRC Needs More Effective Analysis to Highlights of GAO-04-32, a report to the Ensure Accumulation of Funds to Honorable Edward J. Markey, House of Representatives Decommission Nuclear Power Plants Following the shutdown of a Although the collective status of the owners’ decommissioning fund nuclear power plant a significant accounts has improved considerably since GAO’s last report, some radioactive waste hazard remains individual owners are not on track to accumulate sufficient funds for until the waste is removed and the decommissioning. Based on our analysis and most likely economic plant site decommissioned. In 1999, assumptions, the combined value of the nuclear power plant owners’ GAO reported that the combined decommissioning fund accounts in 2000—about $26.9 billion—was about 47 value of the owners’ decommissioning funds was percent greater than needed at that point to ensure that sufficient funds will insufficient to ensure enough funds be available to cover the approximately $33 billion in estimated would be available for decommissioning costs when the plants are permanently shutdown. This decommissioning. GAO was asked