Emission Factor

Nuclear fuel factory (nuclear fuel factory construction)

Emission factor summary

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. This is an immobile infrastructure representing the construction of a nuclear fuel factory. The lifetime is assumed to be 30 years. In the modelled fuel factory mixed oxide fuel assemblies (MOX mixture of uranium oxide from depleted uranium from enrichment and plutonium oxide from reprocessed plutonium) are used together with fresh uranium fuel assemblies in light water reactors (LWRs). The associated infrastructure demand factor is 3.7E-8 plant per kgU in fuel assembly.The process includes land use of the factory energy (electricity and diesel) consumption durion construction building material (concrete steel copper aluminium chrome manganese nickel cast iron zinc and wood) and decommission. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. The reference product amount is 1.

PropertyValue
NameNuclear fuel factory (nuclear fuel factory construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Region
Unit Type
Year
1980
Year Released
2023
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/number
LCA Activity
Refer to source
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_nuclear_fuel_factory_nuclear_fuel_factory_construction
UUID
2f5d975e-dfb2-4fc3-b8e0-ac1f90e02d3f
Code Snippet
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