Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

WC Monitor 12/4/2015   Swift & Staley Starts Paducah Infrastructure Contract Swift & Staley on Tuesday began its three-year, $138.8 million contract to provide infrastructure support at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management in June announced the award of the contract, which has an additional 22-month option period and […]

  The Wednesday, Nov. 25 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing incorrectly referred to Centrus Energy Corp. as the decontamination and decommissioning contractor for the Portsmouth Site. Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth is the D&D Contractor on the PORTS site.  Centrus runs the American Centrifuge Project.  

The New York Stock Exchange has informed Centrus Energy Corp. that the Portsmouth decontamination and decommissioning contractor is not in compliance with NYSE listing standards in the NYSE company guide, as Centrus reported a stockholders’ deficit as of Sept. 30, as well as net losses in 2011, 2012, and 2013, according to a Monday Centrus […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 11/20/2015 In perhaps a last-ditch effort to save the Piketon, Ohio, piece of the American Centrifuge Project, Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Cliff Rosenberger and state Rep. Terry Johnson (R) are calling for the Ohio legislature to officially reiterate to Congress that moving all of Centrus’ American Centrifuge Project (ACP) operations […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 11/20/2015 In perhaps a last-ditch effort to save the Piketon, Ohio, piece of the American Centrifuge Project, Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Cliff Rosenberger and state Rep. Terry Johnson (R) are calling for the Ohio legislature to officially reiterate to Congress that moving all of Centrus’ American Centrifuge Project (ACP) operations […]

Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Cliff Rosenberger and state Rep. Terry Johnson (R) want the Ohio legislature to officially reiterate to Congress that moving all of Centrus’ American Centrifuge Project (ACP) operations from Piketon to Tennessee would be a bad national investment and would hurt the several specialized employees and scores of unemployed residents living […]

International Isotopes Inc. on Friday ?reported ? a net loss of $644,488 for the third quarter of 2015, which is more than double the $267,487 loss recorded for the same period in 2014. The company recorded a $1.26 million loss over the first nine months of 2015, slightly more than the $1.25 million loss reported in 2014. […]

Karl Herchenroeder RW Monitor 11/13/2015 Centrus Energy Corp. on Tuesday reported a net loss of $55.1 million for the third quarter of 2015, a drastic plunge from net income of $418.9 million for the same time period in 2014. Through the first three quarters of the year, Centrus has endured a net loss of $85.6 […]

RW Monitor 11/13/2015   IN THE INDUSTRY The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a public meeting concerning the August uranium hexafluoride leak at the Honeywell uranium conversion plant in Illinois. The focus of the meeting, set for Nov. 19 in Metropolis, will be the commission’s recent inspection at the property. The leak occurred Aug. 1 […]

Karl Herchenroeder WC Monitor 11/13/2015 Centrus Energy Corp. on Tuesday reported a net loss of $55.1 million for the third quarter of 2015, a drastic plunge from net income of $418.9 million for the same time period in 2014. Through the first three quarters of the year, Centrus has endured a net loss of $85.6 […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 11/13/2015 Though no initiatives appear to have been started, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) hopes lawmakers will work to free up some $1.6 billion locked up in an essentially inactive account created 25 years ago to support activities of the then-newly initiated United States Enrichment Corp., after the senator highlighted the account […]

Brian Bradley NS&D Monitor 11/13/2015 Though no initiatives appear to have been started, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) hopes lawmakers will work to free up some $1.6 billion locked up in an essentially inactive account created 25 years ago to support activities of the then-newly initiated United States Enrichment Corporation, after the senator highlighted the account […]

Though no initiatives appear to have been started, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) hopes lawmakers will work to free up some $1.6 billion locked up in an essentially inactive account created 25 years ago to support activities of the then-newly initiated United States Enrichment Corp., according to Coats’ press secretary. The senator highlighted the account on […]

Centrus Energy Corp. on Tuesday reported a net loss of $55.1 million for the third quarter of 2015, a drastic plunge from net income of $418.9 million for the same time period in 2014. Through the first three quarters of the year, Centrus has endured a net loss of $85.6 million against $340.1 in net […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has scheduled a public meeting concerning the August uranium hexafluoride leak at the Honeywell Metropolis Works uranium conversion plant in Illinois. The focus of the meeting, set for Nov. 19 in Metropolis, will be the commission’s results from its probe of the event.   The leak occurred Aug. 1 during maintenance […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 10/30/2015 The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management has started communicating with other government bodies about how shutting down the Piketon, Ohio, portion of the American Centrifuge Project (ACP) will be paid for, and who will foot the bill, Mark Whitney, DOE principal deputy assistant secretary for environmental management, told House […]

WC Monitor 10/30/2015   ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT Centrus Energy and the Kazakhstan government-owned nuclear holding company KazAtomProm have signed a memorandum of cooperation that specifies the development of “mutually beneficial relations” on competitive supplies of Kazakhstan’s uranium to the world market, the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington, D.C., announced Saturday. The document, which has not been released, […]

Brian Bradley WC Monitor 10/30/2015 The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management has started communicating with other government bodies about how shutting down the Piketon, Ohio, portion of the American Centrifuge Project (ACP) will be paid for, and who will foot the bill, Mark Whitney, DOE principal deputy assistant secretary for environmental management, told House […]

The Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management has started communicating with other government bodies about how shutting down the Piketon, Ohio, portion of the American Centrifuge Project (ACP) will be paid for, and who will foot the bill, Mark Whitney, DOE principal deputy assistant secretary for environmental management, told House lawmakers yesterday. No decisions have […]

Centrus Energy and the Kazakhstan government-owned nuclear holding company KazAtomProm have signed a memorandum of cooperation that specifies the development of “mutually beneficial relations” on competitive supplies of Kazakhstan’s uranium to the world market, the Kazakhstan Embassy in Washington, D.C., announced Saturday. The document, which appears to not have been released, was signed by KazAtomProm Chairman Askar […]

Staff Reports WC Monitor 10/16/2015 Fluor Issues RFP for Paducah Refrigerant Disposal Fluor on Thursday issued a request for proposals for companies interested in managing disposal of 8.5 million pounds of refrigerant left over from uranium enrichment operations at the Department of Energy’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Fluor is leading the deactivation of the facility, […]

Brian Bradley RW Monitor 10/16/2015 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that a “more than minor” violation of NRC requirements occurred during an Aug. 1 uranium hexafluoride (UF6) release at Honeywell’s Metropolis Works uranium conversion plant related to a valve installed during maintenance, according to a recently completed inspection report of the incident. The NRC ranks […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that a “more than minor” violation of NRC requirements occurred during an Aug. 1 uranium hexafluoride (UF6) release at Honeywell’s Metropolis Works uranium conversion plant related to a valve installed during maintenance, according to a recently completed inspection report of the incident, which the commission provided Weapons Complex Morning Briefing […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s special inspection report regarding a uranium hexafluoride leak at the Honeywell Metropolis Works in Illinois is expected to be completed by mid-October, a NRC spokesperson said yesterday. The uranium ore conversion facility returned to full operations last month following the company investigation into the leak that occurred earlier in August. The […]

Jeremy L. Dillon WC Monitor 9/18/2015 The Department of Energy will no longer provide funding for Centrus’ American Centrifuge project operations at its Piketon, Ohio facility, the company confirmed late last week. The announcement also noted a one-year extension funding for the American Centrifuge project’s research and development contract with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory […]

Jeremy L. Dillon NS&D Monitor 9/18/2015 The Department of Energy will no longer provide funding for Centrus’ American Centrifuge project operations at its Piketon, Ohio facility, the company confirmed late last week. The announcement also noted a one-year extension funding for the American Centrifuge project’s research and development contract with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory […]

Jeremy L. Dillon RW Monitor 9/18/2015 The Department of Energy will no longer provide funding for Centrus’ American Centrifuge project operations at its Piketon, Ohio facility, the company confirmed late last week. The announcement also noted a one-year extension funding for the American Centrifuge project’s research and development contract with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory […]

The Department of Energy (DOE) this week scheduled site tours for companies considering competing for the contract to operate the Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) facilities.BWXT Conversion Services is contracted through fall 2016 to operate the plants that are processing over 700,000 metric tons of material stored at the two installations […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) on Tuesday announced a 2.5-month extension of Swift & Staley’s (SSI) contract for infrastructure support services at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky. The contract had previously been set to expire on Sept. 15. "Today’s contract extension, valued at approximately $8.4 million, is intended to […]

The Department of Energy will no longer provide funding for Centrus’ American Centrifuge project operations at its Piketon, Ohio facility, the company confirmed late last week. The announcement also entailed a reduction of funding for the American Centrifuge project’s research and development contract with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by 60 percent for an additional […]