Uranium hexafluoride (market for uranium hexafluoride)

Emissions generated by the activity within the product supply chain as described in ecoinvent v3.10. The product 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 cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. The reference product amount is 1.