NRC: News Release - 2005-014 - NRC Calls for Public Comment on Decommissioning Plan for VA’s Omaha Medical Facility Reactor


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No. 05-014

January 24, 2005

NRC CALLS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON DECOMMISSIONING PLAN
FOR VA’S OMAHA MEDICAL FACILITY REACTOR
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is soliciting comments from the public and state, local and tribal officials regarding a research/test reactor decommissioning plan submitted by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. The operating license for the reactor was granted to the VA Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., in 1959. The reactor, with a power level of 20 kW, was permanently shut down in 2001.

Comments should be provided by Feb. 17, 2005 to: Patrick M. Madden, Chief, Research and Test Reactors Section, New, Research and Test Reactors Program, Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Mail Stop 012-G13, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20555-0001.

A copy of the decommissioning plan application (Accession Number ML042740512) is available electronically through the NRC’s online library, ADAMS, at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. Help in using ADAMS is available from the NRC Public Document Room, at (301) 415-4737 or (800) 397-4209.

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