Lessons learned from implementation of International Structure for Decommissioning Costing (ISDC) of Nuclear Installations - 17198

The paper presents the experience accumulated at the company DECOM in Slovakia in implementation of the 'International Structure for Decommissioning Costing (ISDC) of Nuclear Installations' in cost estimation for decommissioning projects. The ISDC was issues in 2012 by main international organisation involved in decommissioning - OECD/NEA, IAEA and European Commission. The primary purpose of the ISDC, as highlighted by the issuing organisation, is to promote the transparency and understanding of cost for decommissioning projects by presenting the cost using the standardised ISDC cost format. General experience shows that the ISDC seems to be the only cost structure which is able to present cost for any decommissioning project after converting the cost into the ISDC cost format. The company DECOM started to implement the ISDC already in 1999 by implementing the predecessor of the ISDC known as 'Yellow Book' which was issues in 1999 by the same international organisations; later by implementing the ISDC. Experience of DECOM by implementing the Yellow Book was used also in developing the ISDC. Experience of DECOM relates to the use of the ISDC as the base for cost estimation structures, developing the ISDC-based cost estimations codes and to transformation of cost for decommissioning projects for benchmarking purposes. The ISDC approach to decommissioning cost estimation for research reactors was implemented also by the IAEA; the experience accumulated at DECOM was used to a great extent. The paper presents the DECOM experience mainly in developing the ISDC-based cost estimation structures used in ISDC costing codes and in ISDC benchmarking of cost for decommissioning projects. (authors)