Document: 10 CFR Part 51
Document ID: badb2076-a3b9-4d76-8cce-f07410ddd630
Document Type: cfr
Title: Uranium fuel cycle environmental data—Table S-3.
Source: 10 CFR Part 51
Source URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/part-51/section-51.51
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Section ID: 51.51
CFR Part: 51
CFR Title: 10

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§ 51.51 Uranium fuel cycle environmental data—Table S-3. ( a ) Under § 51.50 , every environmental report prepared for the construction permit stage or early site permit stage or combined license stage of a light-water-cooled nuclear power reactor, and submitted on or after September 4, 1979, shall take Table S-3, Table of Uranium Fuel Cycle Environmental Data, as the basis for evaluating the contribution of the environmental effects of uranium mining and milling, the production of uranium hexafluoride, isotopic enrichment, fuel fabrication, reprocessing of irradiated fuel, transportation of radioactive materials and management of low-level wastes and high-level wastes related to uranium fuel cycle activities to the environmental costs of licensing the nuclear power reactor. Table S-3 shall be included in the environmental report and may be supplemented by a discussion of the environmental significance of the data set forth in the table as weighed in the analysis for the proposed facility. ( b ) Table S-3. Table S-3—Table of Uranium Fuel Cycle Environmental Data 1 [Normalized to model LWR annual fuel requirement [WASH-1248] or reference reactor year [NUREG-0116]] [See footnotes at end of this table] Environmental considerations Total Maximum effect per annual fuel requirement or reference reactor year of model 1,000 MWe LWR Natural Resource Use Land (acres): Temporarily committed 2 100 Undisturbed area 79 Disturbed area 22 Equivalent to a 110 MWe coal-fired power plant. Permanently committed 13 Overburden moved (millions of MT) 2.8 Equivalent to 95 MWe coal-fired power plant. Water (millions of gallons): Discharged to air 160 = 2 percent of model 1,000 MWe LWR with cooling tower. Discharged to water bodies 11,090 Discharged to ground 127 Total 11,377 <4 percent of model 1,000 MWe LWR with once-through cooling. Fossil fuel: Electrical energy (thousands of MW-hour) 323 <5 percent of model 1,000 MWe LWR output. Equivalent coal (thousands of MT) 118 Equivalent to