“The specialized fuel these advanced reactors will need is currently made on a commercial scale only in Russia.”
Centrus delivered the first HALEU made in the US in 70 years. It runs one cascade of 16 centrifuges and expects 20 kilograms this year and 900 in 2024. Nine of the ten reactors in the DOE’s $600 million demonstration program need this fuel. Washington planned a nuclear revival around a fuel it could only buy from Moscow.