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Science 18 August 1978:
Vol. 201. no. 4356, pp. 609 - 611
DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4356.609
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Military Uses of Uranium: Keeping the U.S. Energy Accounts

KIRK R. SMITH 1

1 Environmental Health Sciences and Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley 94720

Present accounts of U.S. energy consumption are incomplete in two ways: they include neither the direct military uses of nuclear energy nor the mostly military, nonfuel uses of uranium. Preliminary estimates indicate that significant distortions are created in the data on U.S. nuclear energy consumption patterns as a result of these omissions.

Submitted on September 16, 1977
Revised on April 25, 1978

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