Uranium hexafluoride (production)

The activity generating the emissions is uranium hexafluoride production. The reference product is uranium hexafluoride. Uranium hexafluoride is an inorganic substance with a CAS no. : 007783-81-5 . It is called uranium hexafluoride under IUPAC naming and it is also known as "hex" in the nuclear industry and its molecular formula is: UF6. It is solid under normal conditions of temperature and pressure, while it is colourless. It is modelled as a pure substance. There is no publicly available information about the consumption of this substance on a consumer level. On industrial sites, the substance is used for the manufacture of products in the following sectors: to power commercial nuclear reactors that produce electricity and to produce isotopes used for medical, industrial, and defense purposes. 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/3347/documentation.