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EMD-79-50 1 (1979-04-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaayyk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ENERGY AND MINERALS DVISION APRIL 10, 1979 B-159687 The Honorable James R. Schiesing,(I NIHE The Secretary of Energy , 109082 Dear Mr. Secretary: Xhe adequacy of the uranium resource base has become a significant issue in the discussion of the long-term role of nuclear power. The necessity for and timing of reprocessing and breeders are closely related to the adequacy of the domestic and world uranium resource base. Th............ .... ... f c .. . . o m.... t...... an assessmen t..... _y o/ f the future role of nuclear power in the United States. _ In the courseo s workw have found lqai-TT--des do not account for the uranium losses from milling the uranium-bearn oeto extract U308 (yellow cake). .A a rest t ese studies understate the actual demand on the uranium resource base ote lfetime demand-of a uclearreactor Dy ciaTnTg e urt f-fr a ii' n m fie-ain a resource base. The widely-cited Ford/MITRE study (Nuclear Power: Issues and Choices), for example, which appears to have had significant influence on Government nuclear policy, used uranium demand at the mill, not 2,ne mine. A Depart- mernt of... Energy DOE) official teL that DOE uranium d~mand ereimates, which ar consistent with the Ford/MITRE, e s t im a t e , a r e d e m a n d a t e m i l . n t-h e --m-i n T H o w e v e r , i-e-sa-d D-OEwas considering introducing mill losses. He also said that the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) r a which is assessing future prospects for nuclear power, uses mill demand in its assessment of the emand on the uran-i--um resource base. W t is by examining the data used as input for the INFCE assessments, and we indeed found that no correction is being made for milling losses. Since 1966, milling losses have steadily increased, reaching 8.2 percentir iS177 This is more than double the 1966 losses. At the same time uranium ore grade has fallen by a third to 0er155p f-i.17pounc[-T3OW Per EMD-79-50 (30040)

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