CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Step 4 – Steady state and evaluation

Participating entities would regularly review the implementation, evaluate usage and the usefulness of the services, while continuing to refine and develop the service.

The sort of international co-operation envisaged for Option F would likely take a number of years to establish.

5.4. Moving forward

The relatively large number of NPPs internationally, as well as the considerable costs and long time frames envisaged in NPP decommissioning, suggest that benchmarking approaches for decommissioning costs deserves much greater attention. Other industries have led the way in demonstrating how cost benchmarking can provide valuable insights for managing costs and improving project delivery. Implementing such a service for NPP decommissioning, or for decommissioning more generally, will require international collaboration across the industry. The recommendations outlined in this report offer a way forward to proceed with a more detailed discussion and evaluation of options to develop and implement cost benchmarking for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants.