title: Commercial US nuclear reactors and waste: the current status
creator: Platt, A.M.
creator: Robinson, J.V.
publisher: Pacific Northwest Laboratory
date: 1980-09-01
language: English
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: Numerical Solution
subject: Fuels
subject: Bwr Type Reactors
subject: Radioactive Waste Facilities
subject: Water Moderated Reactors 051000* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Economic,
 Industrial, & Business Aspects
subject: Elements
subject: 210100 -- Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Boiling
 Water Cooled
subject: 21 Specific Nuclear Reactors And Associated Plants
subject: Data
subject: Power Plants
subject: Materials
subject: 052002 -- Nuclear Fuels-- Waste Disposal & Storage
subject: Uranium
subject: Water Cooled Reactors
subject: Industry
subject: Extrapolation
subject: Actinides
subject: North America
subject: Reactor Materials
subject: Reactors
subject: Forecasting
subject: 12 Management Of Radioactive And Non-Radioactive Wastes From Nuclear
 Facilities
subject: Spent Fuel Storage
subject: Metals
subject: Pwr Type Reactors
subject: Nuclear Fuels
subject: Enriched Uranium
subject: Thermal Power Plants
subject: Numerical Data
subject: Isotope Enriched Materials
subject: Capacity
subject: Usa
subject: Storage
subject: Energy Sources
subject: Information
subject: 11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials
subject: Nuclear Facilities
subject: Spent Fuels
subject: 210200 -- Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated,
 Nonboiling Water Cooled
subject: Resource Assessment
subject: Nuclear Industry
subject: Nuclear Power Plants
subject: Away-From-Reactor Storage
type: Report
format: Text
identifier: rep-no: PNL-3317-2
identifier: grantno: AC06-76RL01830
identifier: doi: 10.2172/5088801
identifier: osti: 5088801
identifier: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1058561/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metadc1058561