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NRC Needs More Effective Analysis to Ensure Accumulation of Funds to Decommission Nuclear Power Plants (2003)
| Author | US GAO |
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6-01-0-10-70.pdf |
| Date | October 2003 |
| Classification | 6.01.0.10/70 (COSTS) |
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From the publication:
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