BETHESDA, Md. – Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE American: LEU) today announced that it is resuming centrifuge manufacturing activities and expanding its manufacturing capacity at its facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.  The company will invest an additional approximately $60 million of funding for this effort over the next 18 months to lay the groundwork to support a potential large-scale expansion of uranium enrichment at the Centrus’ American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio.  Such a large-scale expansion would require a multi-billion dollar public and private investment. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a special briefing for policymakers on Capitol Hill today, Centrus said that the $3.4 billion that Congress has made available for domestic nuclear fuel production should be focused on deploying American uranium enrichment technology that is manufactured in the United States, by American workers, as opposed to foreign-origin centrifuge technologies that are manufactured overseas. 

BETHESDA, Md. — Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE American: LEU) today announced that the Company’s application to produce High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) at its Piketon, Ohio, facility has been accepted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for formal review. HALEU-based fuels will be required for most of the advanced reactor designs currently under development and may […]

“I’m pleased our team was able to deliver the results the Department expected on a very short timetable,” said Centrus President and CEO Daniel B. Poneman. “This success demonstrates our broad technical capabilities and reflects our strategy of diversifying the business by offering advanced engineering, manufacturing, and D&D services.”

“As we consolidate our centrifuge work into our own facility, this work authorization for K-1600 allows us to help the Department meet its timetable for returning the East Tennessee Technology Park site to the community for reuse and economic development,” said Daniel B. Poneman, Centrus president and chief executive officer. “The new D&D work builds on our recent successful effort to D&D our Ohio facility, advancing our strategic objective to continue to leverage our unique technical capabilities to diversify our business.”

Centrus has signed a contract with UT-Battelle to continue advancing the AC100 U.S. gas centrifuge uranium enrichment technology at the Company’s facilities in Oak Ridge, Tenn.