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Economic risk of contamination cleanup costs resulting from large nonreactor nuclear material licensee operations
Several potential incident scenarios involving the accidental release of radioactive material at five reference, nonreactor nuclear material licensees are analyzed in this report. The economic risk ($/licensee/yr) of decontamination is evaluated for each reference licensee. Although most releases and cleanup costs are minor, some less frequent incidents may result in very high cleanup costs that dominate the economic risk of decontamination of a particular licensee. The economic risk for the 5 plants ranged from a low of $14,000 per licensee per year to a high of $104,000 per licensee per year. This report is the second of two reports by Sandia National Laboratories on the economic risk of nonreactor nuclear material licensee operations. 40 refs., 21 figs., 31 tabs.