Experience and Solutions on the Decommissioning of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors

Conclusions: Decommissioning of NRHF is a pressing, no-delay problem for nuclear power. It is apparently costly and far from safety. • As a replacement of the most popular scenario of decommissioning with delayed dismantling, a new scenario for decommissioning is prepared, which is deeper justified in terms of moral and ethics, and a cheaper one, with immediate dismantling. • The most important problems with decommissioning of NRHF include: management and disposition of RW, handling of SNF, technologies for conditioning of coolants and equipment, designing special equipment for the dismantling, personnel and managerial structures, development of the appropriate legislative and regulatory basis, financial securities