Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed American Centrifuge Plantin Piketon, Ohio (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781494955618)

USEC Inc. (USEC) has submitted an application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for alicense to construct, operate, and decommission the American Centrifuge Plant (ACP), a gas centrifugeuranium enrichment facility located on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reservation in Piketon, Ohio. The American Centrifuge Plant, if licensed, would enrich uranium for use in commercial nuclearfuel for power reactors. Feed material would be comprised of non-enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6).USEC proposes to enrich uranium up to 10 percent by weight of uranium-235. The initial licenseapplication is for a 3.5 million separative work unit1 (SWU) per year facility

Author: U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
ISBN-10: 149495561X
ISBN-13: 9781494955618
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2014
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.93lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.78d