Commercial US nuclear reactors and waste: the current status Metadata

Title

• Main Title Commercial US nuclear reactors and waste: the current status

Creator

• Author: Platt, A.M.
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Robinson, J.V.
  Creator Type: Personal

Publisher

• Name: Pacific Northwest Laboratory
  Place of Publication: Richland, Washington
  Additional Info: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs., Richland, WA (USA)

Date

• Creation: 1980-09-01

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: Between March 1 and June 15, 1980, the declared size of the commercial light waste reactor (LWR) nuclear power industry in the US has decreased another 9 GWe. For the presently declared size: the 165 declared reactors will peak at a capacity of 153 GWe in 2001 and will consume about 870,000 MTU as enrichment feed; the theoretical rate of enrichment requirements will peak at about 19,000,000 SWUs/y in the year 2014; as few as two repositories each with capacity equivalent to 100,000 MTU would hold the waste; and predisposal storage reactor basins and AFRs (away-from-reactor basins) would peak at <85,000 MTU in the year 2020 if the two respositories were commissioned in the years 1997 and 2020. It should be noted that the number of declared LWRs has dropped from 226 on December 31, 1974 to 165 as of this writing. The oil equivalent of the energy loss, assuming a 50% efficiency in use as in cars, is 17,000 million barrels. This is about 10 years of the current rate of US consumption of OPEC oil.

Subject

• Keyword: Numerical Solution
• Keyword: Fuels
• Keyword: Bwr Type Reactors
• Keyword: Radioactive Waste Facilities
• Keyword: Water Moderated Reactors 051000* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Economic, Industrial, & Business Aspects
• Keyword: Elements
• STI Subject Categories: 210100 -- Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Boiling Water Cooled
• STI Subject Categories: 21 Specific Nuclear Reactors And Associated Plants
• Keyword: Data
• Keyword: Power Plants
• Keyword: Materials
• STI Subject Categories: 052002 -- Nuclear Fuels-- Waste Disposal & Storage
• Keyword: Uranium
• Keyword: Water Cooled Reactors
• Keyword: Industry
• Keyword: Extrapolation
• Keyword: Actinides
• Keyword: North America
• Keyword: Reactor Materials
• Keyword: Reactors
• Keyword: Forecasting
• STI Subject Categories: 12 Management Of Radioactive And Non-Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear Facilities
• Keyword: Spent Fuel Storage
• Keyword: Metals
• Keyword: Pwr Type Reactors
• Keyword: Nuclear Fuels
• Keyword: Enriched Uranium
• Keyword: Thermal Power Plants
• Keyword: Numerical Data
• Keyword: Isotope Enriched Materials
• Keyword: Capacity
• Keyword: Usa
• Keyword: Storage
• Keyword: Energy Sources
• Keyword: Information
• STI Subject Categories: 11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials
• Keyword: Nuclear Facilities
• Keyword: Spent Fuels
• STI Subject Categories: 210200 -- Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Nonboiling Water Cooled
• Keyword: Resource Assessment
• Keyword: Nuclear Industry
• Keyword: Nuclear Power Plants
• Keyword: Away-From-Reactor Storage

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Report

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Report No.: PNL-3317-2
• Grant Number: AC06-76RL01830
• DOI: 10.2172/5088801
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 5088801
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1058561

Note

• Display Note: NTIS, PC A04/MF A01.