Nuclear Fuels and Other Fuels n.e.c.

SIEC section 9, the last of the ten top-level sections of the Standard International Energy Product Classification (SIEC); see that page for the classification’s scope rules, coding system and full Table 3.1 code list. Nuclear fuels are within SIEC’s scope but, unlike the other fuel sections, are not used in energy balances [IRES, Ch. III, para. 3.12, PDF pp. 35–36, 2018].

Authorship note: unlike the rest of Chapter III’s product definitions — the work of InterEnerStat, reviewed by the Oslo Group and the UN Expert Group on Energy Statistics — the nuclear-fuel definitions below fell outside InterEnerStat’s scope and were instead provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [IRES, Ch. III, para. 3.19, footnote 23, PDF p. 53, 2018].

9 Nuclear fuels and other fuels n.e.c.

Nuclear fuels — including uranium, thorium, plutonium and derived products that can be used in nuclear reactors as a source of electricity and/or heat — as well as fuels not elsewhere classified [IRES, Ch. III, SIEC 9, PDF p. 52, 2018].

91 Uranium and plutonium

Uranium ores and concentrates; natural uranium, uranium enriched in U 235, plutonium and their compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing natural uranium, uranium enriched in U 235, plutonium or compounds of these products; and fuel elements (cartridges) of nuclear reactors, whether non-irradiated or irradiated [IRES, Ch. III, SIEC 91, PDF p. 52, 2018].

9101 Uranium ores

Uranium ores and concentrates [IRES, Ch. III, SIEC 9101, PDF p. 53, 2018].

9109 Other uranium and plutonium

Natural uranium, uranium enriched in U 235, plutonium and their compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing natural uranium, uranium enriched in U 235, plutonium or compounds of these products; and fuel elements (cartridges) of nuclear reactors, whether non-irradiated or irradiated [IRES, Ch. III, SIEC 9109, PDF p. 53, 2018].

92 / 920 / 9200 Other nuclear fuels

Thorium and its compounds; alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing thorium or compounds thereof; other radioactive elements and isotopes and compounds (other than uranium, thorium or plutonium); and alloys, dispersions (including cermets), ceramic products and mixtures containing these elements, isotopes or compounds [IRES, Ch. III, SIEC 9200, PDF p. 53, 2018].

99 / 990 / 9900 Other fuels n.e.c.

Fuels not elsewhere classified [IRES, Ch. III, SIEC 9900, PDF p. 53, 2018].

Related

• SIEC Classification System — SIEC’s scope rules, coding system and full Table 3.1 code list, of which this section is one entry
• Energy Products — the general energy-product definition and SIEC scope-precision rules this classification operationalizes
• Heat — the preceding SIEC section, and the last section before this one in the code list