NEA Issue Brief: An analysis of principal nuclear issues
No. 1, February 1987

Decommissioning nuclear power plants

Please refer to more recent NEA publications on this subject, available at www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/wpdd and especially The Decommissioning and Dismantling of Nuclear Facilities: Status, Approaches, Challenges. This provides, in non-specialist terminology, a concise overview of the status of D&D of nuclear facilities and of the associated issues in NEA member countries.