Europe (Ecoinvent)

Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

Nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility (construction)

Austria

Australia

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

Switzerland

China

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

India

Italy

Japan

Korea, Republic of

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Central Asia and Pacific Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

East Europe and Iceland

Africa except Egypt and South Africa

Latin America except Brazil

Middle East, Asia and Egypt

Russian Federation (the)

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Türkiye

Taiwan (Province of China)

United States of America (the)

South Africa

Construction work

United Arab Emirates (the)

Afghanistan

Antigua and Barbuda

Albania

Angola

Argentina

Barbados

Bangladesh

Burkina Faso

Bahrain

Burundi

Benin

Bolivia, Plurinational State of

Bahamas

Bhutan

Belize

Central African Republic

Congo

Côte d'Ivoire

Chile

Cameroon

Colombia

Costa Rica

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Algeria

Ecuador

Egypt

Ethiopia

Fiji

Gabon

Grenada

Gambia

Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Guatemala

Guinea-Bissau

Hong Kong

Honduras

Haiti

Israel

Iraq

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iceland

Jamaica

Jordan

Kenya

Cambodia

Kiribati

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kuwait

Kazakhstan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Lebanon

Saint Lucia

Sri Lanka

Lesotho

Morocco

Moldova, Republic of

North Macedonia

Mali

Myanmar

Mongolia

Mauritius

Maldives

Malawi

Malaysia

Namibia

Niger

Educational and vocational structures

Health care structures

The activity generating the emissions is nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility construction. The Reference Product is nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility. Reprocessing of spent fuel elements offers the possibility of recovering and recycling valuable fissile materials (U-235 and Pu-239). The utilization of the fissile material contained in the fuel elements takes place in the reprocessing plant by separating the quantitatively small portion (approx. 4%) of radioactive fission products from the main component uranium (approx. 95%) and the usable plutonium (approx. 1%). This is followed by several extraction steps to purify the uranium and plutonium from fission and activation products and unwanted actinides. The THORP plant (BNFL, Sellafield, UK) and its adjoint facilities (for vitrification and conditioning of waste from light water reactors) have been used as main reference for the estimation of the infrastructure, although for the operation most of the data are for UP2 and UP3 plants (Cogema, La Hague, FR). For the calculation of infrastructure requirements (during operation), the capacity of THORP with a duration of 30 years is used. The associated infrastructure demand factor is 2.78E-8 facility per kgSM. The process includes land use, building materials, their decommission and machinery. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/1168/documentation

The activity generating the emissions is nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility construction. The Reference Product is nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility. Reprocessing of spent fuel elements offers the possibility of recovering and recycling valuable fissile materials (U-235 and Pu-239). The utilization of the fissile material contained in the fuel elements takes place in the reprocessing plant by separating the quantitatively small portion (approx. 4%) of radioactive fission products from the main component uranium (approx. 95%) and the usable plutonium (approx. 1%). This is followed by several extraction steps to purify the uranium and plutonium from fission and activation products and unwanted actinides. The THORP plant (BNFL, Sellafield, UK) and its adjoint facilities (for vitrification and conditioning of waste from light water reactors) have been used as main reference for the estimation of the infrastructure, although for the operation most of the data are for UP2 and UP3 plants (Cogema, La Hague, FR). For the calculation of infrastructure requirements (during operation), the capacity of THORP with a duration of 30 years is used. The associated infrastructure demand factor is 2.78E-8 facility per kgSM. The process includes land use, building materials, their decommission and machinery. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/5157/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility (construction)
Sector	Buildings and Infrastructure
Category	Construction
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Europe (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_EUROPE), Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type	Number
Year	1980
LCA Activity	source_specific

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility (construction)	Europe (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1980	Number
Nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility (construction)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1980	Number

Nuclear spent fuel reprocessing facility (construction)

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