American Centrifuge Operating (ACO), a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp, is moving closer to operating an advanced centrifuge cascade in Piketon, OH to produce the nation’s first amount of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)—a crucial material needed to develop and deploy advanced reactors in the United States. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recently cleared the facility to start …
US nuclear plant owners and operators purchased less uranium in 2022 than in 2021, and at a higher price, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest annual uranium marketing report. Most of the uranium delivered in 2022 was of foreign origin, with Canada and Kazakhstan together providing more than half the total. The …
The US nuclear fuel and services company Centrus has completed its operational readiness reviews and received regulatory approval to possess uranium at its Piketon, Ohio site and introduce uranium into the cascade of centrifuges it has constructed there. The company said it remains on track to begin production of high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) at the plant …
Kazakhstan is the largest producer and exporter of uranium globally, mining and exporting more than 40 percent of the world’s supply. Up to now, it has been the major supplier for Russia and before that the Soviet Union. But today, other countries are becoming involved, including Western countries such as the United States, which wants …
When uranium was discovered in 1789 by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, it’s likely the German chemist didn’t know how important the element would become to human life. Used minimally in glazing and ceramics, uranium was originally mined as a byproduct of producing radium until the late 1930s. However, the discovery of nuclear fission, and the potential promise of …
In a Full Committee markup today, the Energy and Commerce Committee passed solutions that will secure our critical energy infrastructure, strengthen America’s nuclear energy industry, and protect people’s freedom of choice when it comes to their home appliances. Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) on H.R. 1042, the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act: “Nuclear …
All the uranium produced in the USA during the first quarter of this year was from in-situ leach (ISL) operations, according to the latest US government update. But production from conventional mills as well as ISL looks set to ramp up over the coming months. Total US production of uranium concentrates, at 2511 pounds U3O8 …
Once upon a time, enrichment was a government monopoly—at least outside the Soviet bloc. But the United States, eager to get out of the field, was convinced that the private sector could do it better. Now, the West is dependent on the Soviets’ successors and is facing an uncertain supply, a complication of the Russian …
The sale of a stake in a massive new uranium mine to Russia prompted an exodus of senior managers at Kazakhstan’s state-run miner. The deal for part of the Budenovskoye mine, projected to become the world’s biggest source of the radioactive metal, to Russia’s nuclear power monopoly, Rosatom, went through at the end of last …
Momentum grows for banning Russian imports of uranium used in nuclear fuel Legislation to ban Russian uranium imports is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers look to further punish Moscow for invading Ukraine. Yet the United States remains heavily reliant on Russia for uranium, the main fuel used by nuclear power plants – yet …
