Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

The House Appropriations Committee was scheduled to mark up a 2025 spending bill on Tuesday that would keep the budget for DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy about flat at $1.8 billion and preserve unrequested funding for the office’s advanced nuclear reactor programs. The markup of the 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations […]

Former Chinese officials reportedly told U.S. counterparts recently that Beijing would not resort to nuclear weapons or threats in a conflict over Taiwan, Reuters reported. That was one of the takeaways from track two talks — meaning unofficial talks without government representatives — involving half a dozen delegates, mainly former officials and scholars, over the […]

The Department of Energy this week solicited bids for what could be a decade-long contract to purchase new low-enriched uranium fuel from U.S. and allied sources. The Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Enrichment Acquisition will be a 10-year, $3.4 billion, indefinitely-quantity, indefinite-delivery contract with multiple awardees, DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy wrote in the solicitation posted […]

The Department of Energy should finish soil remediation this year at the former K-25 gaseous diffusion complex at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, and turn to groundwater now that regulators have signed off on written decisions. The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management said last week in a press release the Tennessee […]

The Department of Energy should finish soil remediation this year at the former K-25 gaseous diffusion complex at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, and turn to groundwater now that regulators have signed off on written decisions. The DOE Office of Environmental Management said last week in a press release the Tennessee Department of Environment […]

The Department of Energy in June plans to solicit bids on a decade-long contract for acquiring domestic low-enriched uranium, the agency said recently in a procurement note. There would be multiple awards for the 10-year, $3.4 billion, indefinitely-quantity, indefinite-delivery deal, the agency wrote last week in a synopsis of its proposed solicitation. The agency did […]

The Department of Energy in June plans to solicit bids on a decade-long contract for acquiring domestic low-enriched uranium, the agency said recently in a procurement note. There would be multiple awards for the 10-year, $3.4 billion, indefinitely-quantity, indefinite-delivery deal, the agency wrote last week in a synopsis of its proposed solicitation. The agency did […]

President Biden (D) on this week signed into law a ban on importing Russian uranium beginning in 2028, the White House announced. Under the bill signed Monday companies may no longer import unirradiated low-enriched uranium produced in Russia or by a Russian entity unless the importer gets a waiver from the Department of Energy. Waivers are only […]

President Biden (D) on Monday signed into law a ban on importing Russian uranium beginning in 2028, the White House announced. Under the bill, companies may no longer import unirradiated low-enriched uranium produced in Russia or by a Russian entity unless the importer gets a waiver from the Department of Energy. Waivers are only good […]

After reaching a new labor contract with Centrus Energy for dozens of employees involved in making enriched uranium at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio, a United Steelworkers union local is in negotiations with the landlord contractor for the complex. Although the new Centrus contract, reached in March, only involves 40 people for […]

President Biden (D) on Monday signed into law a ban on importing Russian uranium beginning in 2028, the White House announced. Under the bill, companies may no longer import unirradiated low-enriched uranium produced in Russia or by a Russian entity unless the importer gets a waiver from the Department of Energy. Waivers are only good […]

After reaching a new labor contract with Centrus Energy for dozens of employees involved in making enriched uranium at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio, a United Steelworkers union local is in negotiations with the landlord contractor for the complex. Although the new Centrus contract, reached in March, only involves 40 people for […]

Earnings rose at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., in the first quarter, during which the company said Monday it cranked out more naval-nuclear components but made less money on government business overall as it bulked up its workforce. Work is beginning under subsidiary contracts with the Tennessee Valley Authority and the National Nuclear Security (NNSA) Administration, […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration began planning Monday for a contract to annually produce 400 metric tons of high purity depleted uranium for future nuclear-weapon manufacturing. “Vendors should assume that a contract would be awarded by July 15, 2025,” the agency wrote in a request for information published Monday. Responses to the request for information […]

Centrus Energy Corp., Bethesda, Md., had a net loss in the first quarter, which the uranium broker and enrichment technology developer attributed to the timing of uranium fuel orders by its customers. The quarterly net loss was about $6 million, or $0.38 a share, down from net earnings of more than $7 million, or $0.47 […]

Earnings rose at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., in the first quarter, during which the company said Monday it cranked out more naval-nuclear components but made less money on government business overall as it bulked up its workforce. Work is beginning under subsidiary contracts with the Tennessee Valley Authority and the National Nuclear Security (NNSA) Administration, […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration began planning Monday for a contract to annually produce 400 metric tons of high purity depleted uranium for future nuclear-weapon manufacturing. “Vendors should assume that a contract would be awarded by July 15, 2025,” the agency wrote in a request for information published Monday. Responses to the request for information […]

On Tuesday, the Senate voted unanimously to ban imports of Russian uranium by 2028, setting the stage to wean U.S. power plants off the imported fuel this decade. The Senate approved a bill that the House passed in December and which would make Russian uranium illegal in the U.S. by Jan. 1, 2028. U.S. utilities […]

On Tuesday, the Senate voted unanimously to ban imports of Russian uranium by 2028, setting the stage to wean U.S. power plants off the imported fuel this decade. The Senate approved a bill that the House passed in December and which would make Russian uranium illegal in the U.S. by Jan. 1, 2028. U.S. utilities […]

Since starting up a new enrichment cascade in the fall, Centrus has delivered 100 kilograms of energy-dense uranium fuel to the Department of Energy, the company wrote Friday in a regulatory filing. “Centrus has now achieved cumulative deliveries to the DOE of over 100 kilograms of [high assay low-enriched uranium] UF6,” the company wrote in an […]

Since starting up a new enrichment cascade in the fall, Centrus has delivered 100 kilograms of energy-dense uranium fuel to the Department of Energy, the company wrote Friday in a regulatory filing. “Centrus has now achieved cumulative deliveries to the DOE of over 100 kilograms of [high assay low-enriched uranium] UF6,” the company wrote in […]

Responses to the Department of Energy’s rapid-fire request for subject matter expertise in licensing Centrus Energy Corp.’s latest centrifuge technology were due Monday. The agency released the request for information on Wednesday. Responses were due Thursday, but DOE bumped the due-date past the weekend and on to Monday. The agency is looking for someone with […]

In a Tuesday hearing, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) requested, but did not get, a promise from the Secretary of Energy that President Joe Biden (D) would follow rules in a House-passed bill if his administration bans imports of Russian uranium. “If the administration does impose its own ban on Russian uranium imports, will you commit […]

The Department of Energy Thursday published its justification to extend the incumbent decommissioning contractor at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio until Sept. 30. The move to extend Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth six months from April 1 to Sept. 30 was expected. The agency announced its intention just after Christmas. DOE published its justification for extending the incumbent […]

In a Tuesday hearing, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) requested, but did not get, a promise from the Secretary of Energy that President Joe Biden (D) would follow rules in a House-passed bill if his administration bans imports of Russian uranium. “If the administration does impose its own ban on Russian uranium imports, will you commit […]

The centerpiece of a federal neutron research complex in Maryland will use highly enriched uranium fuel until at least 2030, according to a recent regulatory filing. That’s because the Department of Energy and its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration have yet to develop a fuel the National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) can use, according […]

The centerpiece of a federal neutron research complex in Maryland will use highly enriched uranium fuel until at least 2030, according to a recent regulatory filing. That’s because the Department of Energy and its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration have yet to develop a fuel the National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) can use, according […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration planned in June to award a one-year contract to study a pilot defense-uranium enrichment plant based on technology developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the agency said Friday. The semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency narrowed the timeline for the award in a question-and-answer document published on a […]

The centerpiece of a federal neutron research complex in Maryland will use highly enriched uranium fuel until at least 2030, according to a recent regulatory filing. That’s because the Department of Energy and its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration have yet to develop a fuel the National Bureau of Standards Reactor (NBSR) can use, according […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration planned in June to award a one-year contract to study a pilot defense-uranium enrichment plant based on technology developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the agency said Friday. The semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency narrowed the timeline for the award in a question-and-answer document published on a […]