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Estimating pressurized water reactor decommissioning costs: A user`s manual for the PWR Cost Estimating Computer Program (CECP) software. Draft report for comment
Bierschbach, M.C.; Mencinsky, G.J. - 2008
With the issuance of the Decommissioning Rule (July 27, 1988), nuclear power plant licensees are required to submit to … the US Regulatory Commission (NRC) for review, decommissioning plans and cost estimates. This user`s manual and the …, provides estimates for the cost of decommissioning PWR plant stations to the point of license termination. Such cost estimates …
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Vulnerability And Risk Assessment Using The Homeland-Defense Operational Planning System (HOPS)
Durling, Jr.; Price, D E; Spero, K K - 2008
For over ten years, the Counterproliferation Analysis and Planning System (CAPS) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been a planning tool used by U.S. combatant commands for mission support planning against foreign programs engaged in the manufacture of weapons of mass...
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Participation of the Nuclear Power Plants in the New Brazilian Electric Energy Market
Mathias, S.G. - 2008
A new regulation framework has been established for the Brazilian electric energy market by a law put into effect on March 15,2004. The main overall goals of this new regulation are: to allow the lowest possible tariffs for end users, while providing the necessary economic incentives for the...
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Synergistic Use of IEEE and IEC Nuclear Power Plant Standards
Johnson, G - 2008
Many organizations worldwide develop standards that affect nuclear instrumentation and control (I and C). Two of the primary standards organizations are the US IEEE's Nuclear Power Engineering Committee (NPEC), and the IEC subcommittee on Reactor Instrumentation (SC45A). This paper surveys the...
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Use of the Homeland-Defense Operational Planning System (HOPS) for Emergency Management
Durling, Jr.; Price, D E - 2008
The Homeland-Defense Operational Planning System (HOPS), is a new operational planning tool leveraging Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's expertise in weapons systems and in sparse information analysis to support the defense of the U.S. homeland. HOPS provides planners with a basis to make...
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Nuclear waste disposal educational forum
2008
In keeping with a mandate from the US Congress to provide opportunities for consumer education and information and to seek consumer input on national issues, the Department of Energy's Office of Consumer Affairs held a three-hour educational forum on the proposed nuclear waste disposal...
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Radioactive waste isolation in salt: peer review of Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation's Socioeconomic Program Plan
Winter, R.; Fenster, D.; O'Hare, M.; Zillman, D.; … - 2008
The ONWI Socioeconomic Program Plan spells out DOE's approach to analyzing the socioeconomic impacts from siting, constructing, and operating radioactive waste repositories and discusses mitigation strategies. The peer review indicated the following modifications should be made to the Plan:...
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Low-level waste management
Levin, G.B. - 2008
An overview of the current situation in the United States and a look to the future of low-level waste management are presented. Current problems and challenges are discussed, such as: the need of additional disposal sites in the future; risks and costs involved in transport of low-level wastes;...
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Tank waste remediation system retrieval and disposal mission phase 1 financial analysis
Wells, M.W. - 2009
The purpose of the Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) Retrieval and Disposal Mission Phase 1 Financial Analysis is to provide a quantitative and qualitative cost and schedule risk analysis of HNF-1946, Tank Waste Remediation System Retrieval and Disposal Mission Initial Updated Baseline (Swita...
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Geothermal Electric Projects from a User's Viewpoint
Nugent, James M. - 2006
The financing of a geothermal power plant has a unique characteristic which is not present with conventional oil, coal, or nuclear power plants and which has slowed development of geothermal resources. That unique characteristic is the increased risk as perceived by utilities, banks and lessors...
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