[ RadSafe ] US DOE sells 200 tons of uranium hexafluoride

[Bolling, Jason E]

Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) will be enriched in U-235 for commercial nuclear power plant usage.  These companies are various electric power utilities that own/operate nuclear power plants.  They buy the raw natural uranium feed, pay a fee to have it enriched at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, pay another fee to a fuel fabricator to transform the enriched UF6 into fuel assemblies, and then fit the new fuel assemblies into their reactors during a refueling outage.

Although I do not work at the Paducah plant, I work for the same company that performs the enrichment operation.

-Jason Bolling
USEC Inc.

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From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf Of Franz Schönhofer
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 2:16 PM
To: 'Sandy Perle'; radsafe at radlab.nl; powernet at hps1.org
Subject: AW: [ RadSafe ] US DOE sells 200 tons of uranium hexafluoride

What will those companies do with it?

Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
MinRat i.R.
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Wien/Vienna
AUSTRIA


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Betreff: [ RadSafe ] US DOE sells 200 tons of uranium hexafluoride

US DOE sells 200 tons of uranium hexafluoride

Reuters Oct 4 - The average price for all offers received was $213.48 per kilogram, the DOE said in a release.

Successful buyers included subsidiaries of FPL Group Inc (FPL.N: 
Quote, Profile, Research), Exelon Corp (EXC.N: Quote, Profile,
Research) and Progress Energy Inc.(PGN.N: Quote, Profile, Research).

Since peaking at $136 per pound in June, uranium oxide (U3O8), or raw uranium, used in the manufacture of uranium hexafluoride, now sells for about $80 per pound.

The DOE sold the uranium in eight separate lots of 100 metric ton (1 lot), 30 metric tons (2 lots), and 7.7 metric tons (5 lots) with delivery to be made at the Paducah, Kentucky Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
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