Uranium enrichment
Description
This paper analyzes under four different scenarios the adequacy of a $500 million annual deposit into a fund to pay for the cost of cleaning up the Department of Energy's (DOE) three aging uranium enrichment plants. These plants are located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky; and Portsmouth, Ohio. In summary the following was found: A fixed annual $500 million deposit made into a cleanup fund would not be adequate to cover total expected cleanup costs, nor would it be adequate to cover expected decontamination and decommissioning (D and D) costs. A $500 million annual deposit indexed to an inflation rate would likely be adequate to pay for all expected cleanup costs, including D and D costs, remedial action, and depleted uranium costs
Availability note (English)
US General Accounting Office, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 (United States).Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Analysis of decontamination and decommissioning scenarios
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 12 p.
- Report number
- GAO/RCED--92-77
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23060352
- Subject category
- S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT PLANTS; CLEANING; COST; DECOMMISSIONING; DECONTAMINATION; ENRICHED URANIUM; FINANCING; KENTUCKY; PORTSMOUTH CENTRIFUGE ENRICHME; REMEDIAL ACTION; TENNESSEE; US DOE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; ISOTOPE ENRICHED MATERIALS; ISOTOPE SEPARATION PLANTS; MATERIALS; METALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; URANIUM; US ORGANIZATIONS; USA