URANIUM ENRICHMENT POLICY

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIFTH CONGRESS

CONTENTS

STATEMENTS

Church, Hon. Frank, a U.S. Senator from the State of Idaho__.

Voight, William R. Jr., Director, Division of Uranium Resources and

Enrichment, Department of Energy-

Canfield, Monte, Jr., Director Energy and Minerals Division, General

Accounting Office.

Cox, Ellis T., chairman, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Services Committee, Atomic

Industrial Forum, Inc., Washington, D.C.-

Bostian, Ralph W., chairman, Nuclear Fuel Committee, Edison Electric

Institute and manager of System Results and Fuel Management, Duke

Power Co., Charlotte, N.C..

Alvarez, Robert, Washington representative, Environmental Policy Cen-

ter, Washington, D.C.

APPENDIXES

APPENDIX I

Answers to Questions and Additional Comments by Witnesses

William R. Voight, Jr., Director, Division of Uranium Resources and En-

richment, Department of Energy-.

Page

1

2,7

51

65

70

93

98

Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General of the United States, General Ac-

counting Office___.

108

John J. Kearney, senior vice president, Edison Electric Institute, Wash-

ington, D.C.__

Ellis T. Cox, chairman, Committee on Nuclear Fuel Cycle Services, Atomic

Industrial Forum, Washington, D.C.

113

120

APPENDIX II

Additional Statement for the Record

Vince Taylor, Pan Heuristics, Los Angeles, Calif.......

130

APPENDIX III

Additional Materials Submitted for the Record

Department of Energy press release, February 7, 1978, "DOE Announces

New Type of Long-Term Contract for Supplying Uranium Enrich-

ment Services".

242

Department of Energy conceptual terms and conditions of the new ad-

justable fixed-commitment contract for uranium enrichment services

(AFC)_____

244

Department of Energy contract for furnishing uranium enrichment services

(adjustable, fixed-commitment)-foreign (draft).

267

Department of Energy contract for furnishing uranium enrichment services

(adjustable-fixed-commitment)-domestic (draft).

297

Existing uranium enrichment services criteria_

327

Proposed uranium enrichment services criteria_

330

General Accounting Office report to the Congress, "Uranium Enrichment

Policies and Operations: Status and Future Needs," November 18, 1977,

Rept. No. EMD-77-64--

333

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