Centrus Energy, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., has been awarded an extended contract with the Department of Energy, worth about $110 million, to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium through June 30, 2026.
In 2022, Centrus was awarded a three-phase follow-on contract to bring the cascade into production and produce HALEU for DOE’s use. DOE has exercised its first year option after a contractual amendment to split the first-three year extension into a one-year extension followed by a two-year option, according to Centrus Friday press release.
DOE initially contracted with Centrus to license and construct a cascade of advanced centrifuges to demonstrate HALEU production at Centrus’s American Centrifuge Plant at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio.
The Department of Energy has set out the schedule for the transportation of its high burnup research cask from North Anna Power Station in Virginia to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
After INL was selected to be the destination for the HBURC on April 29, DOE has begun to form an ad hoc working group among tribal, state, and federal agencies to discuss coordinated plans and safety measures, according to its Wednesday webinar. It intends to finalize its ad hoc working group membership within this month and finalize a work plan by July.
DOE plans to do a dry test run for the research cask by spring 2027 and to do the complete run by fall 2027. The department will transport the research cask with a specialty railcar.
Nano Nuclear Energy has appointed former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry as its Chairman of its executive advisory board.
Nano Nuclear’s executive advisory board is made up of various governmental, military and science experts from the United States and other countries. With the appointment of Perry as the chair of the board, Nano Nuclear said he will lead its overall efforts to assist the company.
The startup nuclear company headquartered in New York City made the announcement on June 10 in a press release.
