96 



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Question 7: Please provide WNP-2 operations and maintenance (O&M) expenditures per 



year from FY 1985 to the present and estimated O&M expenditures for FY 

 1994. What percentage of these O&M expenditures have been reimbursed by 

 BPA under the net billing agreement from FY 1985 to the present? How do 

 WNP-2 O&M expenditures compare to the nuclear industry average? 



Answer: Operations and Maintenance (O&M) expenditures presented below include 



capital and other costs with the exception of FY 1987 and 1988. 

 Capital/Other costs are not readily available for those years. Data prior to FY 

 1987 is also not readily available. 



* 1993 - Year End Estimate 



BPA reimburses 100 percent of the WNP-2 O&M costs Verifiable industry 

 cost data is difficult to obtain. However, in our opinion, WNP-2 O&M costs 

 are on the high end of the industry average cost for Single Nuclear Plant 

 Utilities. 



Question 8: Portland General Electric recently concluded that it was more cost-effective to 



permanently shutdown the Trojan reactor than to continue to operate it. Has 

 BPA conducted any analysis of the long-term cost-effectiveness of continuing 

 to operate the WNP-2 reartor? If so, what are the results of this analysis? 



Answer: Although WNP-2 is not facing a large capital investment as Trojan Nuclear 



Plant was, BPA has analyzed the cost-effectiveness of continuing to operate 



