“Decommissioning is not rocket science. There is nothing very complicated about it. It’s all about learning from experience.”
Decommissioning expert.
“When I look at that place I see things growing, instead of shrinking. New buildings, new facilities, but nothing comes out of it. My impression is that they are just going to keep everything there. It will never go away.”
Anonymous resident, Saluggia, Italy.
“You know that you are wasting money if everything you decontaminate is coming out perfectly clean. That means you are using too much stuff to clean things out. Instead, if something comes out dirty after you control for it, and you need to send it back to the decontamination process, then it means you are being efficient.”
Anonymous NPP employee.
“After twenty years, we realized that decommissioning nuclear power plants is much more challenging than constructing and operating them.”
Emanuele Fontani, former managing director, SOGIN, Italy. La Repubblica, July 16, 2020.
“It’s all about logistics. Decommissioning is about having space to move things around, transforming buildings to perform decontamination operations, storing waste, transporting things out of site. You need space.”
Former employee at ISAR 1 NPP, Bavaria, Germany.
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