Company: LEU
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001065059-25-000006
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Company: CENTRUS ENERGY CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-07
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 2034. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, our backlog was approximately $0.9 billion and $1.0 billion, respectively. Our backlog includes both funded amounts (services for which funding has been both authorized and appropriated by the customer), unfunded amounts (services for which funding has not been appropriated), and unexercised options in our contracts. If any of our contracts were to be terminated or options not being exercised by DOE, our remaining backlog would be reduced by the expected value of the cancelled contracts or forgone options.

Competition and Foreign Trade

It is estimated that the enrichment industry market for commercial nuclear reactors powered by LEU is currently about 50 million SWU per year. Our global market share of enrichment for the LEU market is less than 5%. Global LEU suppliers in our highly competitive industry compete on the basis of price and reliability of supply. The four largest LEU suppliers comprising over 95% of market share combined are as follows:

•Rosatom, a Russian government entity, which sells LEU through its wholly-owned subsidiary TENEX;

•Urenco, a consortium of companies owned or controlled by the British and Dutch governments and two German utilities;

•CNEIC, a company owned by the Chinese government; and

•Orano, a company largely owned by the French government, and formerly part of the French government.

According to the WNA, as of 2023, the production capacity for the major LEU suppliers is as follows:

•Rosatom/TENEX was approximately 27 million SWU per year. Imports of LEU and other uranium products produced in the Russian Federation are subject to restrictions as described below under — Russian Suspension Agreement and Ukraine War;

•Urenco has reported installed capacity at its European and U.S. enrichment facilities of approximately 18 million SWU per year;

•CNEIC has emerged as a significant producer primarily focused on supplying domestic requirements in China. CNEIC’s commercial SWU production capacity was approximately 9 million SWU per year; and

•Orano’s gas centrifuge enrichment plant in France began commercial operations in 2011 and the plant has SWU production capacity of approximately 8 million SWU per year. 

All of our current competitors are owned or controlled, in whole or in part, by foreign governments, and operate enrichment technologies developed with the financial support of foreign governments. These competitors may make business decisions in both domestic and international markets that are influenced by political or