Figure ES2. Legal Maximum Availability of Uranium from the Commercialization of Russian Highly Enriched Uranium as a Share of Projected U.S. Uranium Requirements, 1997-2010



Sources: Projected U.S. uranium requirements--Energy Information Administration, Nuclear Power Generation and Fuel Cycle Report 1997, DOE/EIA-0436(97) (Washington, DC, September 1997), Table F1; U.S. quota--USEC Privatization Act (April 26, 1996), Section 3112 (b).


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