Re: Greenhouse Gases

[Andy Hull <hull@mail.sep.bnl.gov>]

To continue on the greenhouse gas thread, the following was received from
Sam Morris at BNL.  For some years, He has been involved in the assessment
of the emissions from alternative fuel cycles.




>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:24:25 -0400
>From: morris3@sun2.bnl.gov (samuel c. morris)
>To: hull@mail.sep.bnl.gov
>Subject: Re: Greenhouse Gases
>
>Andy,
>  You may remember the old "Table S-3" fro 10CFR51 that gives emissions 
>associated with fossil fuels used in nuclear in mining, millin UF6,
>transport, reprocessing etc.   I'll mail you a copy.  It's from
>1981.  I don't think that emissions from fuels used, say, in trucking
>ore will have changed greatly, but the emissions associated with
>electricity use have changed.
>
>  In the modeling we do, we assume that electricity used in the nuclear
>fuel cycle is the same as the overall mix of electric produced in the US,
>where as I believe Table S3 assumed it all came from coal.
>
>Sam
>
>