Emission Factor
Uranium - in yellowcake (uranium production)
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The activity generating the emissions is uranium production, in yellowcake. The reference product is uranium, in yellowcake. Uranium, in yellowcake is a raw material for a nuclear fuel. It is sourced from uranium mines, open cast or underground. Its main applications are in the following sectors: nuclear power plants. Yellowcake is uranium concentrate, which is a mixture, containing at least 75% uranium oxides U3O8. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/9997/documentation.
Property | Value |
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Name | Uranium - in yellowcake (uranium production) |
Sector | Energy |
Category | Fuel |
Source | ecoinvent |
Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11 |
Region | |
Unit Type | |
Year | 1980 |
Year Released | 2024 |
Emission Factor |
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LCA Activity | unknown |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | AR5, AR6 |
Data Versioning |
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API Reference
Activity ID
fuel-type_uranium_in_yellowcake_uranium_production_in_yellowcake-fuel_use_na
UUID
2a8aca64-4cd3-4256-a938-63ef49a18c33
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