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RCED-83-104 1 (1983-04-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmxl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IZIrILA UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 RESOURCES, COMMUNITY. AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B- 211412 APRIL 15, 1983 The Honorable Donald Hodel The Secretary of Energy 121 114 Dear Mr. Secretary: Subject: Decommissioning retired nuclear reactors at Hanford Reservation, (GAO/RCED-83-104) This report is to alert you to concerns we have about the Department of Energy's (DOE's) ongoing effort to develop a strategy for decommissioningI eight retired plutonium produc- tion reactors at its Hanford Reservation in Washington State. DOE's Richland Operations Office has directed one of its contractors to identify decommissioning options for these re- actors and to recommend to the operations office the most appro- priate, least costly option by September 1983. The operations office then intends to select a decommissioning strategy and, sometime after fiscal year 1984, to decommission one of the re- tired reactors--the 100-F reactor--as a demonstration step in preparation for eventually decommissioning the remaining seven reactors. According to Richland Operations Office officials, the 100-F reactor building has deteriorated to the point where DOE must take some protective action to prevent the radioactiv- ity contained in the reactor from posing a threat to public health and safety. We are concerned that DOE, in its current decommissioning planning, is not considering two issues which are important to selecting the most appropriate, least costly decommissioning strategy. First, DOE needs to decide the long-term future of the Hanford Reservation. Second, DOE needs to decide whether Hanford is a suitable location for permanently disposing of iDecommissioning is the process of cleaning up a retired facility contaminated with radioactivity. Decommissioning methods range from sealing access to and maintaining surveillance of the facility to total facility dismantlement. (301594)

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