Status of the Domestic Uranium Mining and Milling Industry: The Effects of Imports : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, September 25, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 476 páginas |
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additional Atomic Energy Act capacity Chairman Commission commitments Committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contracts current policy deliveries Department of Energy DOE enrichment domestic production domestic uranium industry domestic uranium producers domestic utilities DRAFT effect electric enriched uranium enrichment customers enrichment plants enrichment services estimates exploration FIGURE foreign uranium future impact increase Industry Exception LIBRARY OF CONGRESS limit long-term market price million mining and milling natural uranium NRC's nuclear power operating tails assay percent policy options pound production capability projected purchase radiation radon reactor reduced regulations regulatory Representative HOLIFIELD Representative HOSMER restrictions result risk schedule SCHLESINGER SEABORG Senator DOMENICI short tons split tails statement stockpile Subcommittee Table thousand tons tion toll enrichment transaction tails assay U.S. uranium industry unfilled requirements United uranium demand uranium enrichment uranium imports uranium inventories uranium market Uranium Mill uranium supply viability viable domestic uranium
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Página 83 - I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Página 12 - That the Commission, to the extent necessary to assure the maintenance of a viable domestic uranium industry, shall not offer such services for source or special nuclear materials of foreign origin intended for use in a utilization facility within or under the jurisdiction of the United States.
Página 73 - EPA's contrary assumption also contravenes our Constitution which provides for continuity of government. As Chief Justice Marshall explained in Marbury v. Madison, 5 US (1 Cranch) 137, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803), our Constitution and its principles The Honorable William Stratton July 10, 1981 Page 9 "are designed to be permanent.
Página 424 - ... at a somewhat higher tails assay than previously planned, while continuing to employ the existing schedule for our uranium enrichment services transactions. This schedule, as you know,, is based on a transaction tails assay of 0.20 percent. Operation in this manner will gradually reduce our stocks of surplus uranium and in a way which will avoid direct competition by the Government in the private uranium market. Our studies indicate that proceeding in this manner would not, in itself, affect...
Página 453 - DOE and its predecessors, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Energy Research and Development...
Página 73 - ... may pose a potential and significant radiation health hazard to the public, and that the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare and the regulation of interstate commerce require that every reasonable effort be made to provide for the stabilization, disposal, and control in a safe and environmentally sound manner of such tailings in order to prevent or minimize radon diffusion into the environment and to prevent or minimize other environmental hazards from such tailings.
Página 47 - NRC's regulations are premature. Section 206 of the Mill Tailings Act directs that EPA must promulgate general standards for the protection of the public health, safety, and the environment and that NRC is then to implement these standards.
Página 401 - Commission does not believe it is feasible to define quantitatively in advance the criteria which in its judgment would characterize a viable industry. Although the size of the market is an important element, a number of other factors must also be considered, such as the price of uranium at the time restrictions are removed, the size of domestic ore reserves, the rate of development of new reserves, the probable penetration of the domestic market by foreign imports, and the size of the export market.
Página 25 - September 1985, working either in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs of the Department of State or in one of the bureaus of the Agency for International Development.
Página 390 - ... customers may purchase enriched or natural uranium on the basis outlined above. Foreign sales policies, and the arrangements made pursuit to Agreements for Cooperation are not affected by the policies set out in this Notice. REMOVAL OF BESTRICTIONS ON ENRICHMENT OF FOREIGN URANIUM FOR DOMESTIC USE 16.