Uranium enrichment: New French process

Enrichment Tails Assays and Uranium Supply: a Dynamic Relationship

At present, utility fuel buyers order uranium, conversion, and enrichment services according to optimization criteria based on relative prices for EUP inputs. Enrichment decisions are constrained only by enrichment contract requirements that limit the tails assays nominated to a certain range without surcharges. At present, given a uranium price of $33.75/kg U as UF6, and roughly $105/SWU, the ...

Minimization of waste from uranium purification, enrichment and fuel fabrication

FOREWORD As any industry, nuclear industry generates a diverse range of waste which has to be managed in a safe manner to be acceptable to the public and the environment. The cost of waste management, the risks to the public and employees, and the detriment to the environment are dependent on the quantity and radioactive content of the waste generated. Waste minimization is a necessary activity...

A Proliferation Assessment of Third Generation Laser Uranium Enrichment Technology

Low-resolution gamma-ray measurements of uranium enrichment.

We have developed smaller, lighter hardware (MCA and shielded detectors) that has been successfully transferred to the commercial sector. We have developed software that has received limited testing, the next release should be sufficiently robust for wide release to the general public. We have had initial success with more sophisticated analysis methods. We are pursuing medium-resolution tors a...

Does uranium induce circulatory diseases? First results from a French cohort of uranium workers.

OBJECTIVES Increased risk of circulatory system diseases (CSDs) was observed in nuclear workers handling uranium and plutonium in Russia and the UK. This work examines the CSD mortality after chronic intake of uranium among 2897 workers (79,892 person-years) at a uranium processing plant (1960-2006) in France. METHODS Cumulative exposure to different uranium compounds, classified by their iso...