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Three more companies - enCore Energy, Ur Energy and Uranium Energy Corp - have been selected to provide domestically produced uranium to the USA's federal strategic uranium reserve. At the same time, Ur Energy has announced a ramp-up of production at its operating Lost Creek mine after expansions to its sales agreements.

Date: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-uranium-producers-announce-contracts-and-produc

Production on steady decline since early 1980s Energy Fuels owns the White Mesa uranium mill in Utah – the US’s only operating conventional uranium mill. Courtesy Energy Fuels. Colorado-based Energy Fuels and Australia-based Peninsula Energy have secured contracts to supply uranium concentrates produced in the US to the US Department of Energy (DOE) in support of the country’s US$75m (€70m) uranium reserve established in 2020.

Energy Fuels said it had been awarded a contract to sell $18.5m of natural uranium concentrates (U3O8) to the US government for the establishment of the uranium reserve.

Energy Fuels owns uranium facilities in Utah, Wyoming and Texas. Among them are the White Mesa uranium mill in Utah – the US’s only operating conventional uranium mill – and the Nichols Ranch in-situ leach project in Wyoming.

Peninsula Energy, which owns the Lance uranium projects in Wyoming, did not give a value for its contract, but confirmed its wholly-owned subsidiary Strata Energy will supply 300,000 pounds of U3O8 currently held in the US.

Peninsula managing director and chief executive officer Wayne Heili said the company produced uranium at its Lance Projects in Wyoming from 2015 through 2019 and is now in the process of completing the final preparations to resume production activities at Lance in 2023.

Date: Tuesday, 20 December 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/two-companies-win-contracts-for-strategic-uranium-reserve-12-1-2022

The first full-scale laser system module developed by Australia-based Silex Systems Ltd for deployment in US Global Laser Enrichment's (GLE) commercial pilot demonstration facility has completed eight months of testing at Silex's laser technology development centre in Lucas Heights, Sydney. GLE said this represented “an important milestone in the development of commercial-scale equipment for GLE’s quest to become the only third-generation laser uranium enrichment company in the world”.

Date: Wednesday, 07 September 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstesting-completed-for-silex-laser-enrichment-module-9980983

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has kick started a process to initiate a US strategic uranium reserve, by issuing a solicitation to purchase up to an estimated one million pounds of domestically-produced U3O8. The Request for Proposal (RFP) is for purchase of uranium "provided by a vendor that has produced uranium at a domestic uranium recovery facility at any time since 1 January 2009”. It defines a uranium recovery facility as a licensed uranium mining, in-situ leach or milling facility. The vendor is not required to be currently producing uranium.

Date: Thursday, 07 July 2022
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nnsa-to-purchase-strategic-uranium-9827262

Canadian companies Cameco and X-energy have entered a non-binding and non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding to explore possible areas of cooperation to support the potential future deployment, fuelling and servicing of Xe-100 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Canada and the USA.

Date: Saturday, 18 September 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cameco-X-energy-join-up-to-support-SMR-deployment

The US Congress voted to approve appropriations for fiscal year 2021 that includes USD1.5 billion for the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy. The appropriations also include USD150 million to initiate the uranium reserve programme to address challenges to the production of domestic uranium.

Date: Thursday, 24 December 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Congress-approves-nuclear-energy-funding-for-FY202

The US is one step closer to funding and implementing a uranium reserve after the Senate committee on appropriations this week released drafts of 2021 funding measures and subcommittee allocations that include $150m for the project.

If passed into law, it would provide full funding for the Department of Energy to begin the funding required to stimulate growth in the domestic uranium mining industry.

The US has the world's largest reactor fleet of 94 commercial nuclear reactors producing about 20% of its electricity, yet its uranium mining industry is struggling. Production has been on a steady decline since the early 1980s as nuclear power plant operators replaced domestic uranium production with less expensive imports.

Under the uranium reserve programme, the DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy would buy uranium directly from domestic mines and contract for uranium conversion services. The DOE has said that the new stockpile is expected to support the operation of at least two US uranium mines, reestablish active conversion capabilities, and ensure a backup supply of uranium for nuclear power operators in the event of a market disruption.

Date: Saturday, 14 November 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/senate-committee-announces-planned-usd150m-for-uranium-reserve-11-5-2020

Fiscal 2021 allocations released yesterday by the US Senate Committee on Appropriations include USD150 million to initiate the uranium reserve programme to address challenges to the production of domestic uranium. The bills provide appropriations for the fiscal year running from 1 October, 2020 to 30 September, 2021 and also include continued funding for the Advanced Reactors Demonstration Program.

Date: Friday, 13 November 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Senate-committee-includes-uranium-reserve-in-FY202

In order to secure the economic and security benefits of a true 'all-of-the-above' energy agenda, the United States must be at the forefront of nuclear innovation, writes Dan Brouillette. The following is the US secretary of energy's 21 August blog for the Department of Energy (DOE).

Date: Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-You-cant-have-true-energy-independence

New policies ‘will increase American competitiveness’ in nuclear industry The Vogtle-3 and -4 nuclear plants are the only reactors under construction in the US. Photo courtesy Georgia Power. The US intends to rewrite foreign policy relationships and increase competitiveness in new markets as it attempts to regain its position as a leader in nuclear technology and regain ground it has lost to China and Russia, energy secretary Dan Brouillette said in an article in Defense One.

Mr Brouilette said many countries of geopolitical importance are pursuing nuclear energy for their domestic electricity needs. Those countries are largely turning to Chinese and Russian state-owned enterprises for the technological support needed to build reactors, while the US sits on the sidelines.

“In effect, China and Russia are gaining geopolitical leverage by exporting nuclear expertise and building 100-year bilateral relationships.

“Our strategy calls for increasing American competitiveness in new markets by making it easier to export civil nuclear technologies, equipment, and fuel.”

Date: Wednesday, 03 June 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/we-must-regain-ground-lost-to-china-and-russia-says-energy-secretary-6-2-2020

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