The NRC published its fee schedule for licensing, inspection and annual fees it charges to applicants and licensees in today's edition of the Federal Register. The following schedule becomes effective on July 25. For a PDF version of the press release announcing the changes, click here.
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| Class/category of licenses | Fee | |
| Operating Power Reactors (including Spent Fuel Storage/Reactor Decommissioning annual fee) | $3,155,000 | |
| Spent Fuel Storage/Reactor Decommissioning | $159,000 | |
| Test and Research Reactors (Nonpower Reactors) | $59,500 | |
| High Enriched Uranium Fuel Facility | $5,449,000 | |
| Low Enriched Uranium Fuel Facility | $1,632,000 | |
| UF6 Conversion Facility | $699,000 | |
| Rare Earth Mills | $73,700 | |
| Transportation: | ||
| Users/Fabricators | $80,900 | |
| Users Only | $4,300 | |
| Typical Materials Users: | ||
| Radiographers | $12,800 | |
| Well Loggers | $4,100 | |
| Gauge Users (Category 3P) | $2,500 |
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Comments
Thanks for publishing this prominently.
As the leader of a company that would like to build atomic engines that are a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than current central station electrical power plants, I advocate a revision of the fee structure to take into account the fact that not all power reactors are the same.
Our proposed plants are approximately the same size or even smaller than current test reactors, but they are definitely designed to produce power, so that do not fall into the "nonpower" reactor category.
I hope your readers notice the huge gap in fees between the test reactor and the power reactor categories.
Rod Adams
http://www.atomicengines.com