Decommissioning of Nuclear Installations

Abstract

CONCLUSIONIt has been shown that from the theoretical point of view neither technical nor financial problems of decommissioning to be seen yet. In realizing decommissioning and the connected use of the possible options to plants which are reaching, or have reached, the end of their working life, the useable options are limited. On balance of all opportunities and of all facts -technical, economical and ecological -only restricted procedures are pass i b le as specific key issues have not been solved so far, partly because the governments didn't make the necessary decisions.Nevertheless from operators' view no fundamental "key issues"supposed the "de minimis" concept will be practicable -are recognizable which will jeopardize the feasibilitiy of decommissioning of a nuclear power plant neither at present nor in future. The current facts apparently confronting the detail plannings are not contradictory to this statement. These current facts necessitate however to consider the possibilities accurately and to accommodate the procedures to the realities planning decommissioning works today. But exact technical plannings and cost calculations have to be done at every time and operators are well acquainted with this method.