More enriched uranium capacity needed

In the next month or two, the Atomic Industrial Forum will issue its long-awaited report on what is rapidly becoming recognized as an important and urgent problem in the nuclear power industry. That problem is the undisputed need for additional capacity to enrich uranium. Raymond L. Dickeman, general manager of Jersey Nuclear Co. and a member of the AIF uranium enrichment committee, says that uranium enrichment capacity is now crucial and must be viewed as on the nuclear critical path. If there are different points of view about the problem, the differences involve only the strength of the adjectives used to describe it. Experts differ about exactly when the new capacity will be needed and how much will be needed. But all agree that D-day for additional uranium enrichment capacity will fall sometime in the early 1980's. If that is true, the time to start planning new uranium enrichment capacity is right now. According to ...