Training and Human Resource Considerations for Nuclear Facility Decommissioning. Supplementary Files: Personnel Requirements during Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Plants. Annex

This annex presents information on the numbers and types of personnel required for the various phases of decommissioning. It includes some illustrative staffing profiles for nuclear reactor decommissioning. It also includes prognoses for how the overall demand for personnel may evolve over the coming decades, based on general scenarios for nuclear reactor decommissioning. The information presented here is based on review of a series of staffing profiles from decommissioning projects in a number of Member States and data obtained from the IAEA Power Reactor Information System (PRIS) database. A sufficient number of suitably qualified and trained personnel will be required to implement the decommissioning programme for each facility. Estimates of the staffing requirements for nuclear power plant decommissioning vary significantly, depending on such factors as reactor design, as well as on operational and organizational considerations impacting on how the plant will be decontaminated and dismantled. It is necessary to assess the number of personnel needed for the growing number of nuclear facilities that are reaching or approaching the decommissioning phase.