New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Dec - Nuclear Decommissioning Financing Committee
Chapter Dec 100 - ORGANIZATIONAL RULES
Part Dec 102 - DEFINITIONS
Section Dec 102.03 - Decommissioning of a nuclear electric generating facility

(a) Safe removal of the land, facility, or site from service, including, but not limited to, decontamination, stabilization, removal, relocation, shipment, containment, demolition, dismantling, or storage, or a combination thereof, of any buildings, structures, systems, components, materials, or debris containing activation products or radioactive contamination. This includes reduction of residual radioactivity to a level that permits release by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the property including land and structures for unrestricted use, and termination of the license issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Included is the removal of nuclear fuel, removal of the reactor containment building, and the dismantling of non-contaminated components required to obtain access to contaminated components;

(b) Restoration and rehabilitation of any site, including the physical and aesthetic appearance of the site subject to this chapter to permit non-nuclear commercial, industrial, or other similar use, consistent with the orderly development of the region with due consideration having been given to the views of municipal and regional planning commissions and municipal governing bodies; and

(c) Perpetual, continual control or surveillance of land and structures that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not released for unrestricted use.