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(Department of Energys' Uranium Enrichment Activities].
END-78-64; B-159687. Hay 22, 1978. Released Bay 30, 1978. 9 pp.
Report to Rep. galter Plovers, Chairman, House Committee on
Science and Technology: Fossil and Nuclear Energy Research#
Development and Demonstration Subcomaittee; by Elmer B. Staats,
Comptroller General.
Issue area: Energy: making Nuclear Fission a Substantial Energy
Source (1608).
Contact: Energy and minerals Div.
Budget Function: Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy:
Energ. (3Gri.
Organization concerned: Department of Energy; Tennessee Valley
Authority.
Congretsional Relevance: House Coamittee on Science and
Technology: Fossil and Nuclear Energy Research, Development
and Demonstration Subcommittee; House Ccamittee on Interior
and Insular Affairs; Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works. Rep. Walter Floers.
Authority: ATomic Energy Act of 1954@. as amended (42 U.S.C.
2201(v)).
The Department of Energy negotiated a 354 megawatt year
reduction in fiscal year 1978 electrical power purchases for
uranium enrichment purposes from the fenessee Valley uthority
(TM). The Departmeni took this action to give it more operating
flexibility in the 1980s in the event that eprichment d*eand is
less than expected. Because TYL cannot supply enough electrical
power, the Department ha. operated its enrichment plants below
capacity since 1972 and expects to continue to do so uhtil 1984.
TMA has been unable to deliver all the electrical power the
Department needs to operate its enrichment plants at fall
capacity because its nuclear poterplant construction program is
behind schedule. Enrichment services prices and rovenues will
not be affected ln fiscal year 1978 by the reduction in
electrical power purchases but will be affected cver a longer
period of time. However, barring unforeseen production losses,
the Department should be ible to meet its contract demand foz
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