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Uranium Enrichment Policies and Operations: Status and Future
Needs. EMD-77-64; B-159687. November 18, 1977. 45 pp. + 2
appendices (10 pp.).
Peport to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Energy: Making Nuclear Fission a Substantial Energy
Source (1608).
Contact: Energy and Minerals Div.
Budqet Function: Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy:
Ene'rgy (305).
Organization Concerned: Department of Energy; Nucl.-ar Regulatory
Commission.
Corgressional Relevance: House Committee on ScieDce and
Technolcgy; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources; Congress.
Authority: Department of Energy Organization Act (P.L 95-91).
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. S. 2035 (94th Cong.).
H. R 8401 t9tlth Cong.) .
The three U.S. Government-owned uranium enrichment
plants which prepare uranium for use as a nuclear reactor fuel
provide enrichme.it services to all U.S. nuclear reactors, all
Government resparch and weapons prcgrams, and most foreign
reactors. Findings/Conclusions: When additional enrichment
plants beyond those currently planned will be needed depends
largely on nuclear power growth, the U.S. share of the foreign
enrichment service market, and the use of existing plants and
enriched uranium supplies. If there is a uranium shortage and
thm United States obtains 35% of the foreign market, future
enrichment plants will be needed by the 1990's. The only option
for meeting long-term demand is to build additional plants.
r'-commendations: The Secretary of the Department of Energy
siould: document the results of monitoring the impact of
removing or relaxing restrictions cn xtilities' use of foreign
uranium for use by the Congress, irdustry, and the public;
promptly publicize the agency's current stockpile policy and the
basis for that policy; examine, with the Department of Defense,
the advantages and disadvantages of using some retired weapons
material in the civilian nuclear power program rather than using
it solely to produce new weapons; prepare and implement a new
operating strategy and make it available in raport form to
interested parties; determine, with the Department of State, the
portion of the foreign market neceEsary to achieve the
President's nonproliferation objectives and estabiish foreign
Rnrichmert goals by which to measure the Nation's progress in
achieving those objectives and to facilitate planning for future
enrichment plants; gradually increase the price of all uranium
sold from its stockpile until it equals the market price at the
time the Government's uranium is sold; and discontinue the
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