New issues emerge

Abstract

With the accomplished maturity in nuclear decommissioning, problems emerged that had been somehow set aside when technology was the main driver to success. First it emerged that organizational and managerial factors had somehow been disregarded in the past and needed much improvement: issues such as the licensee-contractor interactions and the proper supervision of contractors needed a solution. As a significant example of this category of factors, the Appendix tells the evolution (still in progress) of decommissioning cost estimates from preliminary, rough estimates and attempts at establishing simple correlations between costs and construction/operational parameters, to detailed “bottom-up” approaches which are the rule nowadays.