High-assay low-enriched uranium intelligence — updated daily.
Urenco USA has begun production in the sixth new enrichment cascade at its New Mexico National Enrichment Facility, with its US capacity expansion project more than 75% complete and 700,000 SWU of new capacity being installed between 2025 and 2027.
Centrus Energy agreed on October 19, 2026 to acquire Westerman Holdings for approximately $116 million, vertically integrating a key centrifuge casing supplier into its multibillion-dollar LEU and HALEU enrichment expansion.
GLE's SILEX laser enrichment technology has reached Technology Readiness Level 6 after a large-scale demonstration in North Carolina, and is being positioned as a lower-energy, lower-capital alternative to gas centrifugation for producing LEU and LEU+ up to 8% U-235.
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued a Final Environmental Impact Statement recommending a construction and operation licence for Global Laser Enrichment's Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility, with a final safety evaluation and licence decision expected by end-2026 or early 2027.
DOE says billions are being allocated to rebuild US domestic enrichment for both LEU and HALEU, while the NRC has finalised a rule letting DOE- and DoD-authorised designs reuse prior analysis and test data in a streamlined commercial review.
DOE approved the Nuclear Safety Design Agreement for Antares' Mark-1 microreactor on 23 October 2026, as the company assembles HALEU supply deals with Urenco, General Matter and Centrus plus a multi-year TRISO contract with Standard Nuclear.
Westinghouse will invest roughly $1 billion in a new LEU+ fuel manufacturing facility at its Columbia complex in Hopkins, South Carolina, with production scheduled to begin in 2030.
The NRC has issued the final environmental impact statement for Global Laser Enrichment's Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility, the first of two reports underpinning a licence that would authorise LEU and LEU+ production with Cameco offtake reaching into the HALEU grade.
South Africa's Necsa and Quantum Leap Energy have signed a binding heads of agreement to develop a HALEU test bench and commercial production facility at Pelindaba, with QLE holding about 80% of the joint venture and TerraPower supply deals already providing offtake.
Secured Transportation Services coordinated the shipment of roughly 1.7 metric tons of HALEU from Japan to the United States — the largest single international uranium shipment in NNSA history — as part of DOE award-winning removal missions.
Westinghouse will invest $1 billion in a new South Carolina plant producing fuel enriched up to 8 percent U-235 at 600 metric tons of uranium per year from 2030, while Framatome is already licensed for LEU+ up to 10 percent at Richland, Washington.
TerraPower's $4 billion Natrium reactor in Wyoming requires HALEU enriched to about 19% U-235, and losing access to Russian supply after 2022 pushed the project back at least two years — even as Centrus restarts domestic production at Piketon, Ohio.