View source for Press Release-09-112, NRC Requests Plans from 18 Nuclear Power Plants to Address Apparent Decommissioning Funding Assurance Shortfalls

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{{#Wiki_filter:NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs         Telephone: 301/415-8200 Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 E-mail: opa.resource@nrc.gov Site: http://www.nrc.gov No. 09-112                                                                                     June 19, 2009 NRC REQUESTS PLANS FROM 18 NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS TO ADDRESS APPARENT DECOMMISSIONING FUNDING ASSURANCE SHORTFALLS The NRC has contacted 18 nuclear power plants to clarify how the companies will address the recent economic downturns effects on funds to decommission reactors in the future.
Nuclear power plant operators are required to set aside funds during a reactors operating life to ensure the reactor site will be properly cleaned up once the reactor is permanently shut down. The NRCs review of the latest reports on decommissioning funding assurance suggests several plants must adjust their funding plans.
Well discuss this with the plants over the next few weeks so they can explain to us how theyll get the funds back on track to account for their decommissioning cost estimates, said Tim McGinty, director of Policy and Rulemaking in the NRCs Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. This is not a current safety issue, but the plants do have to prove to us theyre setting aside money appropriately.
The letters for the affected plants will be available in the NRCs electronic documents database, ADAMS, by entering each letters accession number (indicated below) here:
http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/dologin.htm.
Plant                                 Letter accession number Beaver Valley Unit 1                  ML091690470 Braidwood Unit 1                      ML091600194 Braidwood Unit 2                      ML091600240 Browns Ferry Unit 1                   ML091670045 Browns Ferry Unit 2                   ML091670080 Browns Ferry Unit 3                   ML091670071 Byron Unit 1                          ML091600336 Byron Unit 2                          ML091600356 Calvert Cliffs Unit 1                 ML091540286 Clinton                               ML091600548 Duane Arnold                          ML091690407 Ginna                                 ML091540299

Indian Point Unit 2                         ML091630533 LaSalle Unit 1                              ML091600496 LaSalle Unit 2                              ML091600530 Nine Mile Point Unit 1                      ML091590134 Nine Mile Point Unit 2                      ML091590160 Palisades                                   ML091550675 Point Beach Unit 1                          ML091550697 Point Beach Unit 2                          ML091550701 River Bend                                  ML091540293 Sequoyah Unit 1                             ML091670153 Sequoyah Unit 2                             ML091670117 Vermont Yankee                              ML091550583 Waterford                                   ML091550692 Watts Bar Unit 1                            ML091530187 News releases are available through a free listserv subscription at the following Web address:
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