Decommissioning Funding Status Reports

NRC regulations require licensees of nuclear power plants to submit data every two years, and annually in some cases on the status of funds to be put aside to cover the cost of decommissioning their nuclear plants (known as the Decommissioning Funding Status (DFS) Report). The NRC staff independently analyzes each of these reports to determine whether the agency has reasonable assurance the licensees are providing sufficient funding for radiological decommissioning of the reactor when it is permanently shut down. This assurance is referred to as "decommissioning funding assurance (DFA)."

A summary of the DFS report for operating reactors is provided to the Commission on a biennial basis in the form of a SECY paper. A partial list of these reports are:

SECY
Number
Description Date
SECY-23-0103 Summary of Staff Biennial Review and Findings of the 2023 Decommissioning Funding Status Reports from Operating and Decommissioning Power Reactor Licensees 12/15/2023
SECY-21-0108 Summary of Staff Biennial Review and Findings of the 2021 Decommissioning Funding Status Reports from Operating and Decommissioning Power Reactor Licensees 12/16/2021
SECY-20-0001 Summary of Staff Review and Findings of the 2019 Decommissioning Funding Status Reports from Operating and Decommissioning Power Reactor Licensees 12/31/2019
SECY-18-0078 Summary of Staff Review and Findings of the 2017 Decommissioning Fund Status Reports from Operating Power Reactor Licensees and Power Reactor Licensees in Decommissioning 08/06/2018
SECY-15-0122 Summary Findings Resulting from the Staff Review of the 2015 Decommissioning Funding Status Reports for Operating Power Reactor Licensees 09/28/2015
SECY-13-0105 Summary Findings Resulting from the Staff Review of the 2013 Decommissioning Funding Status Reports for Operating Power Reactor Licensees 10/02/2013
SECY-11-0149 Summary Findings Resulting from the Staff Review of the 2010 Decommissioning Funding Status Reports for Operating Power Reactor Licensees 10/26/2011
SECY-09-0146 2009 Summary of Decommissioning Funding Status Reports for Nuclear Power Reactors 10/06/2009
SECY-07-0200 2007 Summary of Decommissioning Funding Status Reports for Nuclear Power Reactors 11/14/2007

More information on the decommissioning process is available on the NRC Web site. See our Fact Sheet on Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants and an NRC statement regarding recent media coverage of Decommissioning Funding Assurance.

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