Postulated licensing schedule for an independent spent fuel storage installation

A review of licensing requirements, processes, and anticipated actions for independent spent fuel storage installations (ISFSIs) was conducted in order to develop an estimated schedule and sequence of events for licensing a new ISFSI. This estimate will be useful to potential ISFSI owners in planning for the licensing of their facilities. It is concluded that, although many uncertainties exist with respect to such things as legal appeals, about 29 months are estimated to elapse between license application and license issuance for an ISFSI. This estimate is in reasonable agreement with a previous time estimate for licensing an ISFSI, and, taking into account the special circumstances involved, with the actual licensing schedule for the GE-Morris ISFSI. However, individual portions of the licensing schedule from each case studied sometimes vary significantly

Air quality measurements in the coal-fired power plant environment of Colstrip, Montana

A network of up to six air monitoring and sampling stations were operated 4 to 23 km downwind of the 700 MW coal-fired power plants at Colstrip, Montana. Continuous monitoring identified background SO/sub 2/ levels in the surrounding air at approximately 1 ppB (2.3 ..mu..g/m/sup 3/). Average air concentrations measured in 1978 throughout the network increased to about 2 ppB (4.6 ..mu..g/m/sup 3/) as a result of power plant operations. Meteorological and aerosol correlations with SO/sub 2/ concentrations helped identify and isolate the major source. The high sensitivity for SO/sub 2/ measurement provided resolution of all significant power plant plume fumigations at ground level. The magnitude of SO/sub 2/ exposures were higher than predicted in this rough terrain environment

Technology, safety, and costs of decommissioning reference nuclear research and test reactors. Main report

Safety and Cost Information is developed for the conceptual decommissioning of two representative licensed nuclear research and test reactors. Three decommissioning alternatives are studied to obtain comparisons between costs (in 1981 dollars), occupational radiation doses, potential radiation dose to the public, and other safety impacts. The alternatives considered are: DECON (immediate decontamination), SAFSTOR (safe storage followed by deferred decontamination), and ENTOMB (entombment). The study results are presented in two volumes. Volume 1 (Main Report) contains the results in summary form

Technology, safety, and costs of decommissioning reference nuclear research and test reactors. Appendices

Safety and Cost Information is developed for the conceptual decommissioning of two representative licensed nuclear research and test reactors. Three decommissioning alternatives are studied to obtain comparisons between costs (in 1981 dollars), occupational radiation doses, potential radiation dose to the public, and other safety impacts. The alternatives considered are: DECON (immediate decontamination), SAFSTOR (safe storage followed by deferred decontamination), and EMTOMB (entombment). The study results are presented in two volumes. Volume 2 (Appendices) contains the detailed data that support the results given in Volume 1, including unit-component data