The deadline to comment on proposed changes to Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules for Power Reactors Transitioning to Decommissioning is June 13.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has already received 179 comments on the issue, according to a commission website.
A preliminary draft regulatory analysis notice was filed in the Federal Register May 9. NRC directed its staff to complete the rulemaking by early 2019.
The rulemaking is meant to address issues including: lessons learned from plants that have already gone through the decommissioning process; the advisability of requiring a licensee’s Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activity Report to be approved by the NRC; the appropriateness of maintaining the three existing options for decommissioning; and the appropriate role of state and local governments and other stakeholders in the process.
Shutdown reactors generally remain subject to many of the same NRC requirements as operating reactors.
