Centrus Energy has begun enrichment operations at its American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio as it approaches production of nuclear fuel that will break an existing Russian monopoly and be crucial to the deployment and operation of a next generation of advanced reactors.
The Maryland, US-based nuclear fuel company said it expects to begin producing high-assay low-enriched uranium (Haleu) fuel later this month.
It said the American Centrifuge Plant is the only Haleu facility in the US licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the first new US-owned, US-technology uranium enrichment plant to begin production since 1954.