World nuclear fuel cycle requirements 1990

Technical Report · Fri Oct 26 04:00:00 EDT 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6492647· OSTI ID:6492647

This analysis report presents the projected requirements for uranium concentrate and uranium enrichment services to fuel the nuclear power plants expected to be operating under three nuclear supply scenarios. Two of these scenarios, the Lower Reference and Upper Reference cases, apply to the United States, Canada, Europe, the Far East, and other countries with free market economies (FME countries). A No New Orders scenario is presented only for the United States. These nuclear supply scenarios are described in Commercial Nuclear Power 1990: Prospects for the United States and the World (DOE/EIA-0438(90)). This report contains an analysis of the sensitivities of the nuclear fuel cycle projections to different levels and types of projected nuclear capacity, different enrichment tails assays, higher and lower capacity factors, changes in nuclear fuel burnup levels, and other exogenous assumptions. The projections for the United States generally extend through the year 2020, and the FME projections, which include the United States, are provided through 2010. The report also presents annual projections of spent nuclear fuel discharges and inventories of spent fuel. Appendix D includes domestic spent fuel projections through the year 2030 for the Lower and Upper Reference cases and through 2040, the last year in which spent fuel is discharged, for the No New Orders case. These disaggregated projections are provided at the request of the Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.

• Research Organization: USDOE Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/AD
• OSTI ID: 6492647
• Report Number(s): DOE/EIA-0436(90); ON: DE91001973
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACTINIDES
ASIA
BURNUP
CANADA
CAPACITY
COMPILED DATA
DATA
DEMAND
ELEMENTS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENRICHED URANIUM
ENRICHMENT
EUROPE
FORECASTING
FUEL CYCLE
FUELS
INFORMATION
ISLANDS
ISOTOPE ENRICHED MATERIALS
JAPAN
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
METALS
MIXED OXIDE FUELS
NORTH AMERICA
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR FUELS
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORE CONCENTRATES
ORE ENRICHMENT
ORE PROCESSING
ORES
POWER PLANTS
PROCESSING
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
REACTOR MATERIALS
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLID FUELS
SOLID WASTES
SPENT FUELS
TAILINGS
TAIWAN
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
URANIUM
URANIUM CONCENTRATES
URANIUM ORES
USA
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES