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Figure 4<br />

Combined· <strong>Nuclear</strong> <strong>Power</strong> Enrichment<br />

Demand and Estimated Capacity<br />

Cumulated Throu~h Time<br />

Cumulalive MTSWll (in Ihousand)<br />

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:ithe accelerating demand<br />

for enriched uranium (driven primarily by the expandine<br />

Soviet/CEMA nuclear power and toll enrichment<br />

requirements) , will outstrip our projections of Soviet<br />

capacity for the mid-1990s. We therefore believe that<br />

the Soviets will bring additional production on line<br />

between now and the early t 990s.<br />

, Enriched uranium requirements for military rcquiremenlSnuclear<br />

weapons and naval propulsion-will be ovenhadowed by<br />

the bur&eoninll nuclear power/toll enrichment demands in the<br />

1990s. We judie that military demand has leveled orr (as with the<br />

United States) after many yean of Irowtb.<br />

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