Next Steps

Preliminary Decommissioning Plan for a Nuclear Station in Europe

Development of a Preliminary Decommissioning Plan (PDP) following IAEA guidelines

Work on this projection included the following steps:

Collect the data, and develop the PDP following country regulations, European Commission (EC) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) guidelines.
Develop comprehensive cost estimates using the OMEGA code and incorporate the results into the PDP.
Develop waste management schedules and methodologies.
Prepare the PDP for submission to the local nuclear regulator.
Aligning the PDP with leading international and CANDU specific decommissioning plans and practices.
Trending international regulatory practices and decommissioing strategies that could impact the approach to decommissioning.