Company: LEU
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001065059-25-000024
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Company: CENTRUS ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 8
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 report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2023 reported that while U.S. utilities may have enough inventory to cover one reload of their reactors, “truly strategic physical stockpiles are almost non-existent.”1

Changes in the supply-demand balance and in the competitive landscape arising from the war in Ukraine or the imposition of tariffs, may affect pricing trends, change customer spending patterns, and create additional uncertainty in the uranium market. At the same time, uncertainty remains about future demand for nuclear power generation. To address such changes and uncertainty, we continue to evaluate opportunities to grow our business organically or through acquisitions and other strategic transactions.

Our Technical Solutions segment is committed to the restoration of America’s domestic uranium enrichment production capability in order to play a critical role in meeting U.S. national security and energy security requirements and advancing America’s nonproliferation, energy, and climate objectives. Our Technical Solutions segment is also focused on repairing broken and vulnerable supply chains, providing clean energy jobs, and supporting the communities in which we operate. Our goal is to deliver major components of the next-generation nuclear fuels that will provide reliable carbon-free power around the world. 

The Company’s work on HALEU began under the HALEU Demonstration Contract, signed with the DOE in 2019 to construct a cascade of 16 AC100M centrifuges in Piketon, Ohio to demonstrate HALEU production. The DOE has funded the contract up to $173.0 million with a period of performance that ended November 30, 2022. Closeout activities on the HALEU Demonstration Contract are ongoing. In 2022, the DOE elected to change the scope of the HALEU Demonstration Contract and moved the operational portion of the contract to the new, competitively-awarded HALEU Operation Contract that would provide for a longer period of operation and HALEU production than would have been possible under the HALEU Demonstration Contract.

On November 10, 2022, the DOE notified Centrus that the Company had been awarded the HALEU Operation Contract and work began on December 1, 2022. The base contract value was approximately $150.0 million with two phases through 2024. Phase 1 included an approximately $30.0 million cost-share contribution from Centrus matched by approximately $30.0 million from the DOE to complete construction of the cascade, begin operations and produce the initial 20 kilograms of HALEU UF6 by no later than December 31,