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Nuclear Modernization

Centrus Gets Government Lifeline for Potential Defense Uranium Refining Tech

Friday, January 11th, 2019

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Centrus Gets Government Lifeline for Potential Defense Uranium Refining Tech

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Centrus Energy, the former government-owned U.S. Enrichment Corp., got a lifeline this week from the Department of Energy to build a new 16-machine enrichment centrifuge cascade in Ohio, potentially strengthening the company’s ability to help the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) produce tritium for nuclear weapons in about 20 years. Under a contract awarded Monday by DoE's Nuclear Energy Oak Ridge Site Office and worth up to $115 million over three years, Centrus subsidiary American Centrifuge Operating LLC will build…

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