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NASA Bets on Nuclear Propulsion to Cut the Mars Trip in Half — and the Clock Is Ticking NASA and DARPA are racing to fly the first nuclear thermal rocket engine in space by 2030, a technology tha...

#SpaceRevolution #BWX #Technologies #HALEU #DARPA #nuclear […]

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Centrus Reports Financial Results for 2025 and Looks Ahead to 2026 Expansion Plans Centrus Energy Corp. has announced its financial results for 2025, showing strong revenue growth and outlining plans for significant expansion in 2026.

Centrus Reports Financial Results for 2025 and Looks Ahead to 2026 Expansion Plans #United_States #Centrus_Energy #Bethesda #LEU #HALEU

Studie Haskoning: "Potentie" van SMRs is een opeenstapeling van nadelen Vandaag publiceerde het kabinet het rapport “Ruimtelijke en Energetische inpassing van Small Modular Reactors (SMR’s) bij de industrie”, vergezeld van een Kamerbrief die stelt dat SMR’s “potentie” hebben voor de Nederlandse industrie na 2035. Een zorgvuldige bestudering van het rapport laat echter e

Studie Haskoning: “Potentie” van SMRs is een opeenstapeling van nadelen
#Regering #Zeeland #Congestie #Gen_IV #Gesmolten_zout #HALEU #Haskoning #SMRs #Stikstof #TRISO

General Matter Secures $900 Million Contract to Supply U.S. with Domestic High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded General Matter a $900 million contract for domestic HALEU production, enhancing energy independence and security.

General Matter Secures $900 Million Contract to Supply U.S. with Domestic High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium #United_States #Uranium #HALEU #Paducah #General_Matter

¿Por qué EE.UU. mete 2.700 millones en uranio enriquecido? EE.UU. lanza contratos por 2.700 millones para enriquecer uranio, recortar la dependencia rusa y asegurar combustible para reactores y HALEU. Estados Unidos ha decidido poner dinero, contratos y plazo...

¿Por qué EE.UU. mete 2.700 millones en uranio enriquecido? #uranio #energianuclear #DOE #EstadosUnidos #HALEU #SMR #geopolitica #seguridadenergetica #industria #centrosdedatos #IA #7deenero #felizmiercoles donporque.com/por-que-ee-u...

Centrus Energy Receives $900 Million to Boost Uranium Enrichment in Ohio Centrus Energy has secured a significant $900 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to expand its uranium enrichment capabilities, creating thousands of American jobs.

Centrus Energy Receives $900 Million to Boost Uranium Enrichment in Ohio #United_States #Centrus_Energy #HALEU #uranium_enrichment #Piketon

Include the nuclear industry and their lobbyists too!!!
Corruption, scandals, dark money:
Ohio's HB-6, VC Summer "Nukegate",...
#PhaseOutFossilFuels
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
#BillGates
#TerraPower
#Natrium
#HALEU
Innovation won't solve this.
Renewable energy will!

Declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel The declassified document reveals an urgent need for an international review of the proliferation risks of HALEU.

🚨 JUST IN: A newly declassified cable reinforces proliferation concerns about high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel, and reveals an urgent need for an international review of #HALEU use, writes Ed Lyman (@nucsafetyucs.bsky.social).

#uranium #enrichment #proliferation #IAEA #safeguards #nukesky

Canaccord Genuity initiated coverage on Oklo with a Buy rating, highlighting its factory-built 75 MW small modular reactor (SMR) design as a key differentiator.

#OKLO #OKLOStock #OKLONews #OKLOStockNews #NuclearEnergy #SMR #SmallModularReactor #CleanEnergy #HALEU #EnergyTransition #FuelRecycling

#TerraPower
#BillGates
#Natrium
#HALEU
#Sodium-CooledFastReactors
#Kemmerer

https://www.ucs.org/resources/advanced-isnt-always-better#read-online-content "Table 1: Current Status of US NLWR Projects" Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Aurora Powerhouse, Oklo, Inc.

https://www.ucs.org/resources/advanced-isnt-always-better#read-online-content "Table 2: How NLWRs Compare with LWRs on Safety, Substantiality, and Proliferation Risk" Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactors: Significantly Worse for Safety and Moderately Worse for Long-Lived Waste Generation

"Today's LWRs use... 'low-enriched uranium' (LEU). Experts consider it a far less attractive material for nuclear weapons development than "highly enriched uranium" (HEU), with a U-235 content of at least 20 percent."

#HALEU
#Oklo
#AuroraPowerhouse

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Example of fossil fuels and dark money funding nuclear energy:
#Radiant
#Kaleidos
#HALEU
Current investors in Radiant include... Chevron Technology Ventures...
#PhaseOutNuclearEnergy
www.radiantnuclear.com/blog/series-...

Fermi America and ASP Isotopes Unite to Enhance U.S. Reactor Fuel Supply Fermi America and ASP Isotopes collaborate to establish a HALEU enrichment facility in Texas, boosting U.S. nuclear energy security and innovation.

Fermi America and ASP Isotopes Unite to Enhance U.S. Reactor Fuel Supply #United_States #ASP_Isotopes #HALEU #Fermi_America #Amarillo,_Texas

Centrus Energy Corp. Announces Impressive Second Quarter Results for 2025 Centrus Energy Corp. reports their second quarter 2025 earnings, highlighting significant revenue from HALEU operations and strong financial performance despite market challenges.

Centrus Energy Corp. Announces Impressive Second Quarter Results for 2025 #USA #Centrus_Energy #Nuclear_Fuel #Bethesda #HALEU

Oklo, TerraPower & Hexium Team Up to Tackle U.S. HALEU Fuel Shortage

#OKLO #OKLOStock #OKLONews #OKLOStockNews #TerraPower #Hexium #HALEU #HighAssayLowEnrichedUranium #LEU #LEUStock #LEUNews #LEUStockNews
$OKLO $LEU

Centrus Marks Major Production Milestone with HALEU Delivery to the DOE Centrus Energy has successfully delivered 900 kilograms of HALEU to the Department of Energy, a significant progress in advanced nuclear fuel production.

Centrus Marks Major Production Milestone with HALEU Delivery to the DOE #USA #Centrus_Energy #Bethesda #Department_of_Energy #HALEU

Centrus Secures DoE Extension to Boost HALEU Production Through 2026

#LEU #LEUStock #LEUNews #LEUStockNews #CentrusEnergy #CentrusEnergyStock #CentrusEnergyNews #CentrusEnergyStockNews #HALEU #USAHALEU #HALEUUSA #HighAssayLowEnrichedUranium #Uranium #NuclearPower #HALEUProduction ##HALEUProduction

Centrus Energy's DOE Contract Extension Highlights HALEU Production Commitment Centrus Energy has secured an extension from the Department of Energy to continue HALEU production until 2026, supporting advanced reactors.

Centrus Energy's DOE Contract Extension Highlights HALEU Production Commitment #United_States #Centrus_Energy #Bethesda #Department_of_Energy #HALEU

Aurora Borealis? More Like Aurora Reactor—Oklo Heads to Alaska

🚨 Oklo (NYSE: OKLO) has been selected to power Eielson Air Force Base with its Aurora microreactor.

This isn’t just about energy—it’s about national security. Clean, off-grid, and game-changing.

Nuclear is back.

#Oklo #Nuclear #CleanTech #Defense #HALEU

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Allseas wil "na 2030" schepen op kernenergie Met een gelikt youtube filmpje heeft Allseas, het Nederlands-Zwitsers offshore bedrijf wat grossiert in het aanleggen van aardgasleidingen op zee, bekendgemaakt dat ze na 2030 haar schepen op kernenergie wil laten varen. "Na 2030" is nog lekker rekkelijk geformuleerd, want er is heel veel onduidelij

Allseas wil “na 2030” schepen op kernenergie
#HALEU #Transporten #TRISO #Allseas #scheepvaart #SMRs

Centrus Energy Corp. Reports Strong Q1 2025 Results with Significant Revenue Growth Centrus Energy Corp. announced impressive Q1 2025 results, showcasing significant revenue growth and net income, setting a strong outlook for domestic uranium production.

Centrus Energy Corp. Reports Strong Q1 2025 Results with Significant Revenue Growth #USA #Centrus_Energy #Bethesda #LEU #HALEU

Insight: America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it's Russian.

Pero NO solo se han pillado los dedos con el Uranio Enriquecido, también con el #HALEU (Uranio Empobrecido). Que produce al 100% en Exclusiva #Rosatom. Para TODO el mundo. Los #SMR consumen ése combustible.

NO hay Renacimiento Nuclear. Sin combustible. Ya sea HALEU o Uranio Enriquecido.

NNSA to ask for risk assessment of weapons usability of High-Assay Low Enriched Uranium fuels <p>On 2 January 2025, NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby <a href="https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/nnsa-administrator-jill-hruby-issues-statement-understanding-and-assessing-risks">announced</a> that the agency was "finalizing plans" to commission a National Academies report on proliferation risks of HALEU fuel. Hruby noted that "reactor type, fuel enrichment level, fuel quantity, and fuel form are important factors in evaluating proliferation risks." HALEU (high-assay low-enriched uranium) is uranium enriched to between 10 and 20 percent uranium-235 and is the fuel of choice in many proposed "small modular reactors," concepts, some of which plan to use HALEU to sustain their chain reactions. Current light-water power reactors use fuel with enrichments levels below 5 percent. </p> <p>Hruby's announcement stems from the article published in Science in June 2024 "<a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8693">The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium</a>" by Scott Kemp, Ed Lyman, Mark Deinert, Richard Garwin, and IPFM co-founder Frank von Hippel. It suggests that HALEU enriched above about 12 percent uranium-235 could be used to make a practical weapon. Quantities ranging from several hundred kilograms to about 1000 kg of 19.75 percent HALEU could produce explosive yields similar to or greater than that of the 15 kilotons of the Hiroshima bomb.</p> <p>The article argued that plans for the use of HALEU have not carefully considered the potential proliferation and terrorism risks that the wide adoption of this fuel creates. It called for an assessment of the practicality of making nuclear explosives with HALEU by experts at DOE's nuclear-weapon design laboratories. Given that DOE would be reviewing its own promotion of HALEU as a power-reactor fuel, they also recommended an independent review of the laboratories' conclusions. </p> <p>With the change of Administration in the United State, whether Hruby's successor will be as open to considering this issue remains to be seen, but indications are that the National Academies study is expected to go forward.</p> <p><strong>Enrichment and bombs</strong></p> <p>When uranium is enriched to above about 6 percent uranium-235, it can sustain an explosive fast-neutron chain reaction such as occurred in the Hiroshima bomb. The technical and policy question is what is the minimum enrichment required to make a practical bomb.</p> <p>This question arose in 1954 when, following President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations, the U.S. began to export research reactors. Research reactors produce surplus neutrons for various purposes including the production of short-lived radioactive isotopes to trace biological molecules. The higher the enrichment, the more compact a core can be and the higher the neutron flux available in or adjacent to the core at a given power. The incentive, therefore, was to pick as high an enrichment as possible without spreading the bomb.</p> <p>The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had the matter analyzed and Lawrence Hafstad, its director of research development, <a href="https://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/2016/05/on_the_origins_and_significanc.html">reported</a> back that:</p> <blockquote> <p>Information from Los Alamos indicates that 10 percent enriched uranium is not suitable for any practical weapon... For higher concentrations [enrichment] it would be possible to prevent assembly of a weapon by restricting the total amount of material issued of any given assay. </p> </blockquote> <p>Hafstad recommended that fuel enriched to more than 20 percent not be exported but </p> <blockquote> <p>enriched uranium of assay between 10 percent and 20 percent U²³⁵ be regarded as not of weapons significance provided the total quantity held by any one country does not exceed that given by the formula, kg total U = 2/C^1.7.</p> </blockquote> <p>Here, C is the enrichment. At an enrichment of 10 percent (C =0.1) the maximum amount of enriched uranium that could be exported to a single country would 100 kg and at 20 percent it would be 31 kg.</p> <p>Initial U.S. exports under the Atoms for Peace Program complied with Hafstad's recommendation. The quantitative limit was abandoned later, however, and, for safeguarding purposes, "low-enriched uranium" enriched to less than 20 percent uranium-235 was <a href="https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/PUB2003_web.pdf">defined</a> by the International Atomic Energy Agency as "indirect use material," requiring further enrichment to become weapons usable. </p> <p>In addition, during the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union, using the provision of research reactors as a tool for alliance building, ignored the 20 percent enrichment limit and exported research reactors fueled with "weapon-grade" uranium, i.e. uranium enriched to greater than 90 percent uranium-235, to about forty non-nuclear weapon states (see the IPFM report <a href="https://fissilematerials.org/library/rr15.pdf"><em>Banning the Production of Highly Enriched Uranium</em></a>). </p> <p>Nuclear-weapon proliferation became an issue again, however, after India's first nuclear test in 1974. The 20 percent limit was revived for new reactor exports and, after the September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda attacks on the U.S., concerns about the possibility of nuclear terrorism incentivized the U.S. and Russia to launch a joint effort to convert the highly-enriched-uranium-fueled research reactors they had exported to 19.75 percent enriched uranium.</p> <p>With the decline in the economic competitiveness of conventional nuclear power reactors, however, governments recently have been encouraging reactor designers to explore the possibilities of "small modular reactors," some of which - especially fast-neutron reactors - require HALEU. In 2024, the US Congress <a href="https://www.energy.gov/articles/biden-harris-administration-announces-four-contracts-boost-domestic-haleu-supply-and">provided</a> the Department of Energy $2.7 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to fund the startup of HALEU production.</p> <div id="more"> </div>

NNSA to ask for risk assessment of weapons usability of High-Assay Low Enriched Uranium fuels On ...

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#HEU #minimization #HALEU #HEU #NNSA #United #States

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Biden banned Russian uranium. Richland hopes to land $3B nuclear fuel plant with 1,000 jobs The company has a contract with the Department of Energy related to production of advance nuclear fuel.

🌟💡 Richland’s nuclear ambition: $3B HALEU plant!
🔋 Potential for 1,000 jobs & energy independence
🌱 Nuclear fuels to meet rising energy demands post-Russian uranium ban
💭 Could this redefine clean energy in the U.S.?

#NuclearEnergy #CleanEnergy #HALEU #Richland

Los reactores que 'vende' Vox: diseñados para submarinos nucleares y prototipos de incierta viabilidad comercial en años La propuesta de una central SMR en La Robla y otras localidades no significaría "usar una tecnología novedosa", puesto que es un desarrollo militar de los años 50 que creó un verdadero problema ambien...

Huy. Si fuese por VOX. Teníamos Reactores #Nucleares en #Palencia y #León.

#SMR, #Reactores #Nucleares de Bolsillo, que consumen combustible #HALEU, #uranioempobrecido. Suministrado al 100% en exclusiva por #Putin y #Rosatom.

Y NO, no es una broma macabra.

ileon.eldiario.es/tierra-verde...

Insight: America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it's Russian.

Los #SMR consumen #UranioEmpobrecido también denominado #HALEU. Y lo suministra al 100% Rosatom en exclusiva a todo el mundo.

"America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem"

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Insight: America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it's Russian.

Entre otras cosas, el 100% del Combustible Nuclear #Haleu que necesitan los #SMR. Lo produce #Rosatom (Putin)

Un socio fiable en temas de energía 😂😭🤣 (IRONIC MODE ON).

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Insight: America's new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and it's Russian.

Vamos a ver. El Combustible #Haleu ( #UranioEmpobrecido ). Que se supone, van a consumir los #SMR futuros. Lo produce en EXCLUSIVA al 100% #Rosatom (Putin). Para TODO el Mundo. Un socio fiable en temas de energía ¿ No ?. 😂🤣😭 (IRONIC MODE ON).

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