NUREG: Issuance, Availability

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

NUREG: Issuance, Availability

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued two final

reports on estimating boiling water reactor (BWR) decommissioning

costs. They are NUREG/CR-6174, ``Revised Analyses of the

Decommissioning for the Reference Boiling Water Reactor Power

Station,'' and NUREG/CR-6270, ``Estimating Boiling Water Reactor

Decommissioning Costs.'' The reports discuss and provide methods for

estimating decommissioning costs for BWRs. They also provide background

information to support rulemaking activities to modify funding

assurance requirements for nuclear power reactor licensees.

Copies of NUREG/CR-6174 and NUREG/CR-6270 may be purchased from the

Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. Box

37082, Washington, DC 20013-7082. Copies are also available from the

National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road,

Springfield, VA 22161. Copies are available for inspection and copying

for a fee in the NRC Public Document Room, 2120 L

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Street, NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC. The computer software for

NUREG/CR-6270 can be purchased from the Energy Science and Technology

Software Center, P.O. Box 1020, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-1020, Phone: (423)

576-2606.

For further information contact George J. Mencinsky, U.S. Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, Mail Stop T-9 F31, Washington, DC 20555, Phone:

(301) 415-6206.

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 23rd day of August, 1996.

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Bill M. Morris,

Director, Division of Regulatory Applications, Office of Nuclear

Regulatory Research.

[FR Doc. 96-22509 Filed 9-3-96; 8:45 am]

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