World Nuclear Fuel Cycle Requirements, 1986

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5358624

This analysis report presents the projected requirements for uranium concentrate and uranium enrichment services to fuel the nuclear power plants expected to be operating in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Far East, and other countries in the World Outside Centrally Planned Economic Areas (WOCA), as reported in Commercial Nuclear Power: Prospects for the United States and the World (DOE/EIA-0438(86)). Projections of spent nuclear fuel discharges and inventories of spent fuel are also presented. Domestic projections are provided through the year 2020, with foreign projections through 2000. The domestic projections extend further into the future at the request of the Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM). The Upper Reference case for domestic nuclear supply is consistent with the integrated energy forecast through 1995 in the Annual Energy Outlook 1985 (DOE/EIA-0383(85)). Projections of nuclear power capacity and generation beyond 1995 are not part of an integrated energy forecast; the methodology for developing them is explained in Commercial Nuclear Power (DOE/EIA-0438(86)). The sensitivities of the nuclear fuel cycle projections to different levels and types of projected nuclear capacity, to different enrichment tails assays, to higher and lower capacity factors, and to changes in nuclear fuel burnup levels are also reported.

• Research Organization: USDOE Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC. Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
• OSTI ID: 5358624
• Report Number(s): DOE/EIA-0436(86); ON: DE86015755
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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