The Need for Uranium Enrichment Enterprise Restructuring and Uranium Mining Revitalization: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, on S. 83 ... Amendment No. 6 ... Amendment No. 10 ... April 19, 20, and May 11, 1989, Volume 4 |
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active site Administration agreements Amendment Answer Atomic Energy Act AVLIS bill Cameco Canadian uranium Chairman commercial commitments Committee companies competitive Congress costs customers decommissioning deliveries Department of Energy DOE's domestic uranium industry electricity enriched uranium enrichment corporation enrichment limitations enrichment services export facilities Federal floor price foreign Fund gaseous diffusion government corporation GRANDEY inventory Key Lake legislation licensing long-term Martin Marietta mill tailings million pounds U308 mining and milling National Taxpayers Union natural uranium needs nuclear fuel nuclear material nuclear power Nuexco obligation swaps operating owner or licensee percent plants projected proposed purchase program QUESTIONS FROM SENATOR reclamation requirements restructuring Rio Algom Saskatchewan Secretary Senator FORD Soviet spot market price statement stockpile suppliers taxpayers Trade transactions U.S. Government U.S. uranium U.S. utilities United uranium enrichment enterprise uranium market uranium mining uranium production uranium supply viability
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Page 158 - Federal government to compete in the international marketplace; now, therefore be it RESOLVED, That the Executive Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) , assembled -at its...
Page 123 - Corporation) does not alter its characteristics so as to make it something other than what it actually is, an agency selected by the government to accomplish purely governmental purposes.
Page 79 - My statement today is on fuel supply for the nation's nuclear reactors and is provided on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and the American Nuclear Energy Council (ANEC) . EEI is the national association of investor-owned electric companies. Its members serve approximately 73 percent of all ultimate electricity customers in the nation. ANEC represents over 100 domestic and international organizations having an interest in nuclear energy.
Page 278 - The justification and need for sharing the costs of uranium mill tailings reclamation is rooted in the history of the uranium industry. After World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission undertook to find and develop domestic uranium for our national defense. The AEC created a program to encourage private industry to locate. and develop domestic uranium, which led thousands of Americans to become involved in exploration.
Page 159 - Government's enrichment service program so as to operate as a fully competitive industry responding to market forces and thus providing low-cost energy to ratepayers, provided that the Congress of the United States concludes: 1. That unsubsidized savings to electric utility ratepayers are reasonably likely to occur; 2. That no diminution of safeguards over strategic nuclear materials will occur; 3.
Page 279 - ABC procurement program, and those built since, are known as the active sites, even though most are no longer processing uranium ore. When the inactive sites closed, no expensive reclamation was required or undertaken. Mill tailings were not considered a hazard. Those producers which remained open for the commercial market did not anticipate expensive reclamation would be required, and contracts with customers rarely contained cost pass-throughs of the costly reclamation EPA and NRC have now determined...
Page 158 - WHEREAS, The Federal government's ability to compete in the realities of a competitive market place has been hindered by the actions of the Office Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Accounting Office (GAO) to collect "unrecovered government costs" ranging from $3.5 to $8.8 billion for transfer to the US Treasury; and WHEREAS, The principle of "unrecovered government costs" as well as the employed methodologies underlying these calculations advanced by OMB and GAO are highly controversial...
Page 158 - Federal government has provided enrichment services to electric utilities on a timely, reliable, and dependable basis for a period now approaching two decades, operating as a monopoly until recent years; and WHEREAS, The introduction of international competition has resulted in the Federal government surrendering a large share of the uranium enrichment program marketplace so that it is now experiencing excess production capacity as well as a shortage of revenues required to finance technology improvements;...
Page 123 - Experience indicates that the corporate form of organization is peculiarly adapted to the administration of government programs which are predominantly of a commercial character — those which are revenue producing, are at least potentially self-sustaining, and involve a large number of business-type transactions with the public.
Page 123 - It should be emphasized that government corporations are organized to achieve a public purpose authorized by law. Incorporation does not cause an agency to lose its public character.