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Centrus Technical Solutions

Product Development, Design & Advanced Manufacturing

From concept to production, Centrus Technical Solutions helps our customers reduce the time, cost, and risk of developing and manufacturing complex engineered products. Our team of scientists and engineers transform innovative ideas into proven designs and high-quality products and components. We can produce classified and unclassified components, large or small, whether you need one piece or thousands.

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Advanced Nuclear

Centrus Technical Solutions provides a one-stop shop for meeting the advanced nuclear industry’s manufacturing and fuel design needs. Based on our experience with nuclear fuel, uranium enrichment, multi-physics modeling, engineering, design, advanced manufacturing, and project management, we can assist with the design and manufacture of critical components as well as the business planning, design, and licensing of facilities to produce new fuels.

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What We Do

Nuclear Fuel

Centrus Energy is the world’s most diversified supplier of enriched uranium fuel. Drawing upon our long-term supply agreements with primary producers, purchases from secondary sources, and inventory, Centrus is continuing its nearly 60-year record of providing utility customers with assured, affordable, and on-time deliveries.

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What We Do

Decommissioning Services

From planning to execution, Centrus has the knowledge and experience to ensure the successful decommissioning of your nuclear facility with a focus on safety, regulatory compliance, and cost-effectiveness. Our team has demonstrated the ability to complete decommissioning work on schedule and budget by employing innovative approaches to meeting an organization’s goals, all while ensuring safe operations and strict adherence to regulatory requirements.

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Our Capabilities

Development, Design & Advanced Manufacturing

From concept to production, Centrus Technical Solutions helps our customers reduce the time, cost, and risk of developing and manufacturing complex engineered products. Our team of scientists and engineers transform innovative ideas into proven designs and high-quality products and components. We can produce classified and unclassified components, large or small, whether you need one piece or thousands.

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National Security

Uranium Enrichment Technology

Centrus is working with the U.S. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop and demonstrate a highly efficient uranium enrichment gas centrifuge technology with an important role to play for the national security and energy security of the United States and its allies around the world.

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Ground floor-side view of the HALEU cascade

OUR HISTORY

Dawn of the Atomic Age

During the Manhattan Project, scientists and engineers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, developed and built the world’s first large-scale uranium enrichment facilities.

Atoms for Peace

In the decade after World War II, the country greatly expanded its enrichment capability.  Three huge Gaseous Diffusion Plants in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio – originally built for defense purposes – were the dominant source of fuel for most of the world’s civilian nuclear reactors through the 1970s, helping advance the cause of non-proliferation.  U.S. enriched uranium exports required acceptance of nonproliferation commitments and International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards against diversion to military uses.

The U.S. Falls Behind

The United States’ role as the assured supplier of enriched uranium fuel has steadily declined since the late 1970s. While enrichment programs in Russia, Europe and China have expanded in recent years, the United States shut down its three enrichment plants in 1985, 2001 and 2013, without building a replacement that can meet U.S. national security requirements. The country now lacks a domestic enrichment capability for national security purposes for the first time since the Manhattan project. Learn more about the national security importance of domestic enrichment capability.

Privatization

Bipartisan legislation passed in the 1990s privatized the U.S. enrichment enterprise, creating the United States Enrichment Corporation, the predecessor to Centrus.  Proceeds from the sale of the company generated $3 billion for the U.S. Treasury.

1993-2013:  Megatons to Megawatts

Under a landmark agreement between the United States and Russia, 500 metric tons of former Soviet nuclear weapons material was converted into fuel for America’s civilian power reactors.  The U.S. Government appointed USEC as its executive agent for the program, which became known as “Megatons to Megawatts.”  The fuel supplied 10% of U.S. electricity needs for two decades while permanently eliminating 20,000 warheads worth of weapons-grade material by the time the last shipment of fuel was received at the end of 2013.

2014: Centrus Emerges

After a downturn in global enrichment prices driven by the ongoing market effects of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, the company filed for bankruptcy to restructure debts that were incurred to finance the development of new enrichment technology.  The company emerged from this restructuring in October 2014 as Centrus Energy Corp.  The newly reorganized company retains strong technical capabilities and long-term sales and supply contracts stretching more than a decade into the future.

2020:  Return to Profitability

After several years of losses post-Fukushima, Centrus returns to profitability as it secures affordable sources of LEU supply, reduces overhead costs, and strengthens its balance sheet.  

Late 2023: Milestone Moment — Centrus Launches HALEU Enrichment

Under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, Centrus begins first-of-a-kind production of High-Assay, Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU), a next-generation nuclear fuel needed for many advanced reactor designs.  Centrus’ American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio becomes the first U.S.-owned, U.S.-technology enrichment plant to begin production since 1954.  

Looking to the Future

Centrus continues to provide our utility customers with LEU sourced from our global supply network.  At the same time, Centrus is pioneering production of HALEU in Piketon, Ohio, and our goal is to forge a public-private partnership that will enable us to scale up to meet the full range of commercial and national security requirements for enriched uranium, including LEU and HALEU.   With proven technology, world-class technical capabilities, and a multi-billion-dollar order book, Centrus is well-positioned for the future.

OUR MISSION

Centrus Energy is a trusted supplier of nuclear fuel and services for the nuclear power industry.

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