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Global Laser Enrichment has decided not to submit a proposal in response to a US Department of Energy request for the acquisition of high-assay low-enriched uranium enrichment, its 51%-owner Silex Systems has announced. The company has also received regulatory approval to load uranium hexafluoride for the start of testing to demonstrate the technology it plans to use in its enrichment facility at Paducah in Kentucky.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Laser-enrichment-company-declines-HALEU-opportunit
The owners of the Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) joint venture have agreed to double project expenditures in 2024 to accelerate demonstration of the SILEX laser enrichment technology at its Test Loop pilot facility in the USA this year.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/GLE-laser-enrichment-on-track-for-2024-demonstrati
A repurposed parking lot at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL’s) Chalk River campus has been selected as the site for construction of a demonstration Micro-Modular Reactor (MMR), according to a joint statement by AECL, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and Global First Power (GFP).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 18 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscanada-selects-site-for-first-mmr-10858795
France’s Framatome and US-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) are forming a joint venture to manufacture Tri-structural Isotropic (TRISO) particles and USNC’s Fully Ceramic Micro-encapsulated (FCM) fuel. Framatome and USNC have signed a non-binding Heads of Terms Agreement to integrate their complementary resources to bring commercially viable fuel to market for advanced reactor designs.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 01 February 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfrench-us-joint-venture-targets-commercial-production-of-triso-fuel-10558505
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has accepted an application from X-Energy Reactor Company subsidiary, TRISO-X, for a fuel fabrication facility which will use high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU). Anticipating the decision, TRISO-X, in October, broke ground and began construction of the facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) is expected to create more than 400 jobs and attract investment of approximately $300 million. TF3 is set to be commissioned and operational by 2025.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nrc-accepts-triso-xs-application-for-fuel-fabrication-facility-10451681
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has said it will open negotiations with Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) for the sale of the depleted uranium hexafluoride inventory and with AREVA for off-specification uranium hexafluoride inventory.
GLE has proposed licensing, constructing, and operating a new laser enrichment facility at the Paducah site. The facility would use lasers conceived by Australian technology company SILEX and developed by GLE experts.
The GLE offer also included the potential lease or use of existing Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant facilities, infrastructure, and utilities. DOE said that the GLE proposal "offered the greatest benefit to the government." It could potentially provide "significant compensation" to the Department for its depleted uranium hexafluoride inventories, as well as supporting US policy interests and utilization of the Paducah site.
In September 2012, GLE received a licence from the US nuclear regulator to construct and operate a uranium enrichment plant using laser technology at its existing site in Wilmington, North Carolina.
A new NRC licence would be required for a facility at Paducah, but tails processing could provide an alternative path for commercialization of a new technology in a difficult market, Thomas Meade and Eileen Supko of Energy Resources International, Inc, said in an enrichment market review earlier this year.
AREVA has offered to utilize its nuclear fuel fabrication facility in Richland, Washington, to process the off-specification uranium hexafluoride as blend stock for US nuclear reactor fuel. AREVA has "well-established technology and licensed operations" for blending this type of material with other uranium feed material, DOE said.
The announcement follows a DOE request for offers for the sale of depleted and off-specification uranium hexafluoride inventories, issued in July 2013. The materials are currently housed at the Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, Ohio, Gaseous Diffusion Plant facilities.
DOE said "a number of parties" are interested in utilizing the uranium inventories and potentially in using land or facilities at the Paducah site. In 2011 Urenco offered to enrich DOE tails at the Urenco USA plant.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 28 November 2013
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdoe-selects-global-laser-enrichment-for-paducah