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Nuclear Decommissioning: Management of Costs and Risks
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3. Owner type and organisation
The basic distinction here is between private operator organisations such as private energy
producing companies, and public owners on the federal or state level. As all of the three eastern
European projects are public organisations, this type of organisations is better comparable. It
would be scientifically interesting to discuss whether project organisation and management as
well as experiences differ significantly under a private setting, but that comparison does not
contribute much to the central task of this study.
4. Decommissioning stage and level
The selected examples shall be in an advanced stage of physical decommissioning so that
advantages and lessons learned from that project are already identifiable. Projects in an early
stage are less usable to derive experiences from because all work is only in a preliminary stage.
Aspects to be looked at and evaluated
As all decommissioning projects in question are individually planned and implemented projects with
a:
Specific technical design and condition;
Specific operational history, determining the type and extent of contamination in the facility;
Specific organisational setting and owner condition;
Specific national and regulatory framework condition
it makes no sense to compare the projects in any technical detail, with regard to specific timeframes
and cost figures. The projects are rather described and evaluated with regard to the following
aspects:
5. How is the decision-making and the control over the organisation’s strategic decisions organised
(external oversight, management control)?
6. How is the responsible organisation’s internal structure designed (management, project
organisation, risk management, personnel management, etc.)?
7. How is national and international funding organised?
Selecting examples
For selecting examples that fit the selection criteria described above the following criteria were
applied:
As Figure 1 (on page 32) shows that only France, Germany and the UK are among the countries
having more than four reactors in shutdown mode. So coverage of the situation in these three
countries yields a representative picture.
Figure 2 (on page 33) and Figure 3 (on page 34) summarise the size distribution and the
operating time of reactors in the EU that are currently under shutdown and in different phases of
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