Emission Factor

Nuclear fuel factory (construction)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is nuclear fuel factory construction. The reference product is nuclear fuel factory. 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 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/3217/documentation.

PropertyValue
NameNuclear fuel factory (construction)
SectorBuildings and Infrastructure
CategoryConstruction
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11
Region
Unit Type
Year
1980
Year Released
2024
Emission Factor
  • CO2e0000kg/number
LCA Activity
unknown
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
construction-type_nuclear_fuel_factory_nuclear_fuel_factory_construction
UUID
fd49cadc-0405-4aea-9038-d77228bc2dee
Code Snippet
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