What is it that the states and localities want?
Decommissioning is an engineering and construction process. Doing this work in a radioactive environment requires qualified health physics staff? Will the states and localities provide that? Or is it their old game of “We decide, you pay?”
Or do they want daily or hourly reports on progress and radiation surveys and exposure?
Will someone please tell me?
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