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Design for Decommissioning: a new beginning
Author:	Collum, Bill
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Design for Decommissioning (DfD) is defined as ensuring that nuclear facilities are designed in a manner that facilitates ultimate decommissioning in as safe, technically efficient and cost-effective way as possible. When applied at its highest level, DfD embraces the design of nuclear facilities with their whole lifecycle in mind, such that the decommissioning phase is an integral part of the design of a facility from the very first day. In this way, when a facility comes to the end of its operational life, it can move smoothly to Post Operational Clean Out (POCO) and then through the various phases of decommissioning. Designing nuclear facilities to achieve their immediate operational objectives is challenging enough, so it is not difficult to understand why DfD has languished down the queue when it comes to setting priorities. Added to that, it is doubtful that in the early days of the industry anyone could have foreseen how desperately complicated, time-consuming and costly it would be to take nuclear facilities apart. However, these days, there are plentiful examples of what can happen when DfD doesn't get invited to the top table, all of which should drive our determination to do things very differently from now on.

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