William N. Szymanski

Table 3: Projected uranium supply for Western World requirements, lower HEU feed case (thousand tU)

	2000	2005	2010

Western production	31.6	36.7	39.5
Australia	8.6	10.1	10.8
Canada	13.5	16.2	16.2
Central Africa^a	1.5	0.8	0.8
Namibia	2.7	3.8	3.8
South Africa	1.2	1.2	1.6
United States	2.9	3.2	4.2
Other^b	1.2	1.4	2.0

CIS production	4.6	4.6	5.1

China production	0.6	0.0	0.0

Government inventories	10.8	11.1	6.7
Russian HEU	7.7	9.2	6.2
US HEU, LEU and U	3.1	1.9	0.6

Commercial inventories	4.1	0.0^c	0.0

Total supply	51.7	52.4	51.3

NOTES:
a	Higher cost production supported by contract commitments from France.
b	Includes production centres in Western Europe, Latin America, India, Mongolia and Pakistan.
c	In 2005, 3000 tU of Russian HEU is assumed to be sold from inventory held by one or more commercial firms. In this paper, however, sales of Russian HEU are counted under government inventories.
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.