[ RadSafe ] Decommissioning and you

[John Jacobus]

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thought it might be of interest.

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> Subject: IEM e-Newsletter
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> The IEM e-Newsletter, Vol. 10-05, October 22,  2005 
> 
> A monthly announcement of interesting
> radiation-related  developments 
> from Integrated Environmental Management, Inc. (IEM)
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> Shooting at a Moving Regulatory Guidance Target  
> 
> Are you knee-deep in preparing a decommissioning
> plan for your  
> facility? Are you trying your best to follow all of
> the applicable  
> regulatory guidance on the topic, just to be sure
> your plan will at  
> least get past your regulator's acceptability
> review? Are you 
> doing  whatever you can to keep the inevitable
> exchanges in response 
> to Requests  for Additional Information to a
> practical minimum? 
> Do you have all three  volumes of NUREG-1757
> ('Consolidated NMSS 
> Decommissioning Guidance') planted  firmly on the
> edge of your desk 
> at all times to guide you through the  process? If
> so, it sounds 
> like you have things under control. 
> 
> But  wait! Stop the presses . . . especially if your
> 
> decommissioning plan wasn't  submitted to the U. S.
> Nuclear 
> Regulatory Commission (USNRC) by September  29,
> 2005! On that very 
> date, the USNRC posted a Federal Register notice 
> announcing the 
> availability of yet another batch of guidance (70 FR
>  56940-56941) in 
> the form of Supplement 1 to NUREG-1757, entitled
> 'Updates to  
> Implement the License Termination rule Analysis,
> Draft Report for  
> Comment'. It will indeed be used to assess the
> acceptability of 
> your  submission and guide staff technical reviewers
> as they work 
> their way  through your labor of love. 
> 
> We know what you're thinking; its only a  draft for
> comment 
> report, so no need to get too excited until it is 
> finalized. 
> However, an important client of IEM's was neck-deep
> in preparing  
> its decommissioning plan for submission at the end
> of October, and 
> guess  what? They were advised to consider the
> supplemental
> guidance before sending in their submission.  This
> client was lucky 
> in that some previously received guidance specific
> to  their 
> decommissioning circumstances touched on much of
> what was in the  
> supplement, although there were still a lot of new
> things to pull  
> together at the last-minute, which heightened the
> panic of compiling 
> the  package. 
> 
> Those of you that are not currently immersed in
> decommissioning  plan 
> preparation but looking at kicking off those
> activities in the  
> not-too-distant future will definitely want to take
> a look at the  
> September 29th Federal Register notice and the
> supplement to 
> NUREG-1757.  You can review the material on the
> USNRC's ADAMS 
> system or on their web site  at 
>  
>
(http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1757/s1/)
>   
> If you have any comments or feedback for the USNRC,
> you have until  
> December 30, 2005 to get it in. 
> 
. . .

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On Oct. 5, 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. 

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


	
		
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