Download or read book Excess Uranium Inventories written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uranium is a key component in theproduction of nuclear energy andnuclear weapons. The Department ofEnergy (DOE) manages the nation'ssurplus uranium, which is derived inpart from former nuclear weaponsproduction. In 2008, DOE published auranium management plan that set atarget for DOE uranium sales andtransfers to avert harm to the domesticuranium industry. In 2009, DOE beganusing natural uranium to pay forcleanup work at a former uraniumenrichment facility in Ohio, withouthaving identified such transactions inits 2008 plan.As directed, GAO reviewed DOE'suranium management program. Thisreport examines (1) DOE's uraniumtransactions and plans for futuretransactions, (2) the extent to whichthese transactions were consistent withDOE's uranium management plan, and(3) the extent to which thesetransactions were consistent withfederal law. GAO reviewed transactiondocuments and contracts andinterviewed knowledgeable DOE,contractor, and uranium industryofficials and uranium market analysts. "
Download or read book Excess Uranium Inventories written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excess Uranium Inventories written by Gene Aloise and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uranium (Ur) is a key component in the production of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. The DoE manages the nation's surplus Ur, which is derived in part from former nuclear weapons production. In 2008, DoE published a Ur management plan that set a target for DoE Ur sales and transfers to avert harm to the domestic Ur industry. In 2009, DoE began using natural Ur to pay for cleanup work at a former Ur enrichment facility in Ohio. This report examines: (1) DoE's Ur transactions and plans for future transactions; (2) the extent to which these transactions were consistent with DoE's Ur management plan; and (3) the extent to which these transactions were consistent with federal law. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Examining the Department of Energy s Excess Uranium Management Plan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on the Interior and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excess Uranium Inventories written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excess Uranium Inventories: Clarifying DOE's Disposition Options Could Help Avoid Further Legal Violations
Download or read book Selling the Department of Energy s Depleted Uranium Stockpile written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996 written by David Albright and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutonium and highly enriched uranium (HEU) are the basic materials used in nuclear weapons. Plutonium also plays an important part in the generation of nuclear electricity. Knowing how much plutonium and HEU exists, where and in which form is vital for international security and nuclear commerce. This book is a thorough revision of the World Inventory of Plutonium and highly Enriched Uranium, 1992. It provides a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the amounts of plutonium and HEU in military and civilian programmes, in nuclear and non-nuclear weapon states, and in countries seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. The capibilities that exist for producing these materials around the world are examined in depth, as are the policy issues raised by them. Containing much new information, this book is indispensable to all those concerned with the great contemporary issues in international nuclear relations: arms reductions in the nuclear weapon states, nuclear proliferation, nuclear smuggling, the roles of plutonium and enriched uranium in the nuclear fuel-cycle, and the disposition of surplus weapon material.
Download or read book Excess uranium inventories written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excess Uranium Inventory Management Plan written by United States. Department of Energy and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Energy written by United States Government Accountability and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USEC is the only company that uses U.S.-developed technology to enrich uranium. According to DOE, under international agreements the U.S. must use uranium enriched with domestic technology to meet national security needs, such as for nuclear weapons. In 2012 and 2013, DOE transferred uranium to USEC to support the development of next generation enrichment technology and for other national security purposes. In May 2013, USEC ceased enrichment operations and, in March 2014, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In April 2014, DOE announced it would assume managerial responsibility for continued development of the next generation technology. GAO was asked to review recent DOE transactions involving USEC. This report examines (1) the uranium transactions DOE undertook in 2012 and 2013 involving USEC, (2) legal concerns regarding the transactions, (3) other issues the transactions raise, and (4) the extent to which DOE assessed impacts of the transactions on the domestic uranium market. GAO recommends six actions to DOE to improve the transparency of its uranium transactions, including developing a consistent method for valuing depleted uranium tails and conducting quality assurance on future market impact studies.
Download or read book Forty Years of Uranium Resources Production and Demand in Perspective written by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Red Book", jointly prepared by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency and the International Atomic Energy Agency, is a recognised world reference source on the uranium industry. This publication collates and analyses key information drawn from the twenty editions of the Red Book published between 1965 and 2004, in order to set out a comprehensive review of developments in the world uranium industry from the birth of civilian nuclear energy through to the beginning of the 21st century. It summarises developments in the major uranium-producing countries and topics covered include: installed nuclear capacity, reactor-related uranium requirements, market price, exploration, resources, production, natural and enriched uranium inventories, thorium, mine start-up and closure histories, environmental aspects of uranium mining and processing.
Download or read book Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation written by Allan S. Krass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Download or read book Nonproliferation and Safeguards Aspects of Fuel Cycle Programs in Reduction of Excess Separated Plutonium and High enriched Uranium written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this preliminary investigation is to explore alternatives and strategies aimed at the gradual reduction of the excess inventories of separated plutonium and high-enriched uranium (HEU) in the civilian nuclear power industry. The study attempts to establish a technical and economic basis to assist in the formation of alternative approaches consistent with nonproliferation and safeguards concerns. Reference annual mass flows and inventories for a representative 1,400 Mwe Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) fuel cycle have been investigated for three cases: the 100 percent uranium oxide UO2 fuel loading once through cycle, and the 33 percent mixed oxide MOX loading configuration for a first and second plutonium recycle. The analysis addresses fuel cycle developments; plutonium and uranium inventory and flow balances; nuclear fuel processing operations; UO2 once-through and MOX first and second recycles; and the economic incentives to draw-down the excess separated plutonium stores. The preliminary analysis explores several options in reducing the excess separated plutonium arisings and HEU, and the consequences of the interacting synergistic effects between fuel cycle processes and isotopic signatures of nuclear materials on nonproliferation and safeguards policy assessments.
Download or read book Commercial Nuclear Fuel from U S and Russian Surplus Defense Inventories written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Scientific Basis for Managing DOE s Excess Nuclear Materials and Spent Nuclear Fuel written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-06-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production of nuclear materials for the national defense was an intense, nationwide effort that began with the Manhattan Project and continued throughout the Cold War. Now many of these product materials, by-products, and precursors, such as irradiated nuclear fuels and targets, have been declared as excess by the Department of Energy (DOE). Most of this excess inventory has been, or will be, turned over to DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM), which is responsible for cleaning up the former production sites. Recognizing the scientific and technical challenges facing EM, Congress in 1995 established the EM Science Program (EMSP) to develop and fund directed, long-term research that could substantially enhance the knowledge base available for new cleanup technologies and decision making. The EMSP has previously asked the National Academies' National Research Council for advice for developing research agendas in subsurface contamination, facility deactivation and decommissioning, high-level waste, and mixed and transuranic waste. For this study the committee was tasked to provide recommendations for a research agenda to improve the scientific basis for DOE's management of its high-cost, high-volume, or high-risk excess nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuels. To address its task, the committee focused its attention on DOE's excess plutonium-239, spent nuclear fuels, cesium-137 and strontium-90 capsules, depleted uranium, and higher actinide isotopes.
Download or read book Analysis of Uranium Supply to 2050 written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains the first International Atomic Energy Agency projection of uranium supply and demand to 2050 and provides an understanding of how some alternative uranium supply scenarios could evolve over the period. The analysis is based on the current knowledge of uranium resources and production facilities, and takes into account the premise that they can operate with minimal environmental impact and employ the best practices in planning, operations, decommissioning and closure.
Download or read book Analysis of Civilian Processing Programs in Reduction of Excess Separated Plutonium and High enriched Uranium written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this preliminary investigation is to explore alternatives and strategies aimed at the gradual reduction of the excess inventories of separated plutonium and high-enriched uranium (HEU) in the civilian nuclear power industry. The study attempts to establish a technical and economic basis to assist in the formation of alternative approaches consistent with nonproliferation and safeguards concerns. The analysis addresses several options in reducing the excess separated plutonium and HEU, and the consequences on nonproliferation and safeguards policy assessments resulting from the interacting synergistic effects between fuel cycle processes and isotopic signatures of nuclear materials.
