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Pilgrim owner, potential buyer apply for license transfer

By Christine Legere
Posted Nov 16, 2018

Request estimates cost of plant decommissioning at $1.13B.
PLYMOUTH — The owner of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and the company interested in taking it over to handle decommissioning after the reactor permanently shuts down in June announced Friday that an application for the necessary license transfer has been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
In a joint statement, Entergy Corp., Pilgrim’s owner and operator, and Holtec International, the company looking to own the plant, said they hope the NRC can finish its review by May 31 so the transaction can be completed by the end of 2019.
That is an accelerated time frame, according to NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan, who said transfer reviews generally take about a year.
Holtec officials have promised a quick decommissioning, which has been well-received by Plymouth officials since it means the site can be released for other uses.
Holtec has a contract with Comprehensive Decommissioning International LLC — a joint venture company comprising Holtec and SNC Lavalin — to perform the decommissioning, including demolition and site cleanup. According to Holtec’s schedule, all fuel will be moved from the spent fuel pool into dry casks by 2021. Buildings will be demolished and the site restored by 2027, if regulatory review goes as planned.
All that will remain at that point will be the fuel pad with more than 60 casks filled with radioactive spent fuel.
Other documents were submitted as part of the license transfer request, including an estimate of the cost of decommissioning, which was set at $1.13 billion. Currently the plant’s decommissioning trust fund contains $1.05 billion. That money will be turned over to Holtec when the plant changes hands.
As part of Friday’s submittal, Entergy provided its own decommissioning plan should the sale to Holtec not go through.
The scenario described by Entergy will likely not be well-received by plant watchdogs or officials in Plymouth. It calls for an Entergy affiliate — Entergy Nuclear Generation Co. — to own Pilgrim. The company would mothball the reactor for several decades, under an NRC-approved option known as SAFSTOR, allowing the nuclear decommissioning trust fund to grow before decommissioning and site restoration are completed by 2080.
Entergy estimates the total cost for decommissioning Pilgrim under the SAFSTOR method would be $1.66 billion.
Also included in the submission is an exemption request from Holtec to use the decommissioning fund for spent fuel management and site restoration.
Holtec has said it may be able to move the spent fuel off the Plymouth site to an interim spent fuel storage facility it is planning in New Mexico that is under federal review.
Sheehan said the public would have opportunity to comment on the license transfer application via a hearing.
“After the NRC staff has completed an initial acceptance review of the proposal, the application will be noticed in the Federal Register, informing the public that there will be a 30-day window to submit comments and a 20-day window to request a hearing,” Sheehan said via email.

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