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 1
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 the wake of the war in Ukraine has driven SWU and natural uranium hexafluoride prices sharply higher. Since our backlog includes contracts awarded to us in previous years, the average SWU price billed to customers typically lags published price indicators by several years. Revenue in our LEU business varies based upon the timing of customer contracts. The pricing of deliveries varies depending upon the market conditions at the time the contract was signed and may not reflect current market prices.

The Import Ban Act, which bans the importation of LEU from Russia, may severely limit importation through 2027, unless we are successful in securing waivers for 2026 and 2027, and will cut off supply of LEU from Russia after 2027. Notwithstanding our ability to obtain waivers under the Import Ban Act, the Russian Decree, which prohibits the exportation of Russian LEU from Russia unless TENEX secures a permit for each shipment, may severely limit exportation of LEU from Russia through December 31, 2025. This has drawn attention to the potential for significant tightening of supplies in the market. Russian enrichment plants represent 44% of the world’s capacity, and Russian capacity significantly exceeds its domestic needs. According to data from the WNA, the annual enrichment requirements of reactors worldwide outside of Russia vastly exceeds the available supply of non-Russian enrichment, which potentially threatens the viability of some reactors, including those in the United States. While inventories and increased production at non-Russian plants may partially mitigate the shortfall, these options would not fully replace Russian supply. Deployment of new capacity ultimately could replace Russian enrichment, but this capacity will take a number of years and significant funding from private and/or government sources to come online. Centrus is seeking public and private funding to deploy new production capacity at its Piketon, Ohio, plant to help meet the need for new, domestic supplies of enriched uranium.

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The following chart summarizes SWU long-term price and SWU and UF6 spot price indicators, as published by TradeTech, LLC in Nuclear Market Review:

SWU and Uranium Market Price Indicators*

        * Source: Nuclear Market Review, a TradeTech publication, www.uranium.info

Our contracts with customers are denominated primarily in U.S. dollars, and, although revenue has not been materially affected by changes in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar, we may have a competitive price advantage or disadvantage in obtaining new contracts in a competitive bidding process depending upon the weakness or strength of the U.S.