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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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-uranium-producers-announce-contracts-and-produc
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.
- Source: Nucnet
- 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”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 07 September 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstesting-completed-for-silex-laser-enrichment-module-9980983
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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- 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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 24 December 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Congress-approves-nuclear-energy-funding-for-FY202
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.
- Source: Nucnet
- 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.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- 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).
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Tuesday, 25 August 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Viewpoint-You-cant-have-true-energy-independence
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.”
- Source: Nucnet
- 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
The US nuclear industry had its "best year ever" in 2019, as it "led the world" in generating more than 809 terawatt hours of electricity, Rita Baranwal, assistant secretary for nuclear energy at the Department of Energy (DOE), said yesterday. Despite this achievement, the country's ability to produce domestic nuclear fuel is "on the verge of a collapse", she added.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/USA-plans-revival-of-uranium-sector