[Nucléaire] Relance du nucléaire aux USA.... ou pas ?

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Message par energy_isere » 06 mai 2021, 23:50

2 autres réacteurs US verront leur autorisation d'exploitation passer de 60 ans à 80 ans :
Surry units cleared for 80-year operation
05 May 2021

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved an application by Dominion Energy's Virginia subsidiary for a 20-year extension to the operating licences of the twin-unit Surry nuclear power plant. This will enable the two pressurised water reactors to operate until 2052 and 2053, respectively.
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Message par energy_isere » 10 juin 2021, 12:43

suite de ce post du 12 dec 2020 http://www.oleocene.org/phpBB3/viewtopi ... 3#p2313363
Vogtle Nuclear Plant in Georgia Faces More Construction Delays
Southern Co. project is only one of its type in U.S., and could cost $2 billion more than expected


June 8, 2021

The only nuclear-power plant under construction in the U.S. is facing delays and additional costs. Again.

Earlier this week, an engineering expert working for the Georgia Public Service Commission testified that the startup of the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant would likely be delayed until the summer of 2022 and could cost $2 billion more than expected.

Southern Co. , the Atlanta-based utility building the nuclear-power plant, said it expects the first reactor to be completed during the first quarter of 2022. A spokesman for the company said its judgment was based on current information and that “risks remain on the project and it is possible that the cost estimate could increase in the future.”

Any delays after November 2021 would result in a reduction in the regulated profit that Southern subsidiary Georgia Power receives for building the nuclear reactor.

Vogtle has been beset by numerous delays and cost overruns. It was originally scheduled to open in 2016, and the total cost of the two planned Vogtle reactors tops $27 billion—more than double the initial estimates approved by state regulators in 2008.
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Message par energy_isere » 11 juil. 2021, 15:09

La compagnie US Western Uranium veut redémarrer le complexe minier uranifére de Sunday dans le Colorado.
Western Uranium to restart Sunday mine complex in Colorado

MINING.com Editor | July 6, 2021

Easing covid 19 risks and improved uranium fundamentals have prompted Western Uranium & Vanadium (CSE: WUC; US-OTC: WSTRF) to pull the trigger on a restart of uranium exploration development and mining at the Sunday mine complex in western San Miguel County, Colorado.


The Sunday mine complex comprises the Sunday, West Sunday, St. Jude, and Carnation mines, all interconnected. The operating base will move from St. Jude to the Sunday mine.

Western says the work aims to differentiate the facility as among the few mines in North America able to be put into full-scale production with a negligible capital outlay and lag time.

Western says the move to active status comes in anticipation of the uranium price rising substantially over the next year or two.

The company cites positive momentum building in nuclear power generation and uranium mining based on the increased global acknowledgment that nuclear electricity generation is a scalable clean energy source of baseload power.
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The Sunday complex was fully developed in the 1970s by Union Carbide, which spent about $50 million on the project.
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Message par energy_isere » 17 juil. 2021, 11:41

Kairos Power plans Hermes demonstration reactor at Oak Ridge

16 July 2021

Kairos Power is to establish a low-power demonstration reactor at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, investing USD100 million in a project to demonstrate its capability to deliver low-cost nuclear heat. The Hermes reactor is a scaled version of Kairos Power’s Fluoride Salt-Cooled High Temperature Reactor (KP-FHR), an advanced reactor technology that aims to be cost competitive with natural gas in the US electricity market. The Hermes reactor is scheduled to be operational in 2026.

The Hermes reactor will move forward Kairos Power’s iterative development process from prototype toward commercial scale by demonstrating complete nuclear systems, advancing Kairos Power’s manufacturing capabilities for critical components, testing the supply chain and facilitating licensing certainty for the KP-FHR.

The project at Oak Ridge will be a redevelopment of a site at the Heritage Center, a former US Department of Energy (DOE) site complex.

Kairos Power received USD303 million in funding from the DOE and Office of Nuclear Energy's programme for risk reduction projects to support the design, licensing and construction of the Hermes low-power demonstration reactor. Hermes is intended to lead to the development of the Kairos Power KP-X, a commercial-scale KP-FHR.

Over the last five years, Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TDECD) has supported nearly 70 economic development projects in East Tennessee, accounting for 9000 job commitments and USD2.5 billion in capital investment.

"Oak Ridge continues to lead the nation in groundbreaking technology, and we recognize Kairos Power for joining this effort," Tennessee Govenor Bill Lee said. "I’m proud of the energy development happening in Tennessee that will positively impact the US and the world. We thank Kairos Power for choosing to develop their test reactor here in Tennessee to support their mission of developing innovative nuclear technology that will move the US forward."

TNECD Commissioner Bob Rolfe said: "The Oak Ridge Corridor is at the forefront of science and technology in the US and this partnership with Kairos Power is a huge accomplishment for Tennessee and the nuclear energy world."

Kairos Power CEO and co-founder Mike Laufer added: "The opportunity to demonstrate Kairos Power’s advanced nuclear technology in Tennessee is a major milestone on the path to a clean and affordable energy system in the United States. We are grateful for the support from our partners at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), City of Oak Ridge, the East Tennessee Economic Council, Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board and the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development and we look forward to continued growth and engagement in Tennessee."

In May, TVA announced it is to provide engineering, operations and licensing support to help Kairos Power deploy its Hermes reactor at ETTP under a collaboration agreement between the two companies.

On today's announcement, TVA President and CEO Jeff Lyash said: "Partnering with Kairos Power to develop advanced nuclear solutions creates a competitive advantage for our region and state in attracting innovative industries, jobs and investments."

Hermes is a demonstration version of Alameda, California-based Kairos Power's KP-FHR, a 140 MWe fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactor using TRISO (TRI-structural ISOtropic) fuel pebbles with a low-pressure fluoride salt coolant. It has been selected by the DOE to receive USD629 million in cost-shared risk reduction funding over seven years (DOE share USD303 million), under the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program.
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Message par energy_isere » 24 juil. 2021, 10:42

Evolution du projet de parc de microréacteurs en UTAH . Revu à 6 SMR de 77 MWe chacun. Soit 462 MWe en tout.
Scaled down SMR pilot project remains on course

23 July 2021

Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) now expects to build six 77 MWe NuScale Power Modules on a site at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), rather than 12 units as previously planned. A 2030 start-up date for the plant - known as the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) - is still envisaged.

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How a NuScale SMR plant could look (Image: NuScale)

The CFPP, launched by UAMPS in 2015, was initially envisaged as a 12-unit power plant using 50 MWe NuScale Power Modules. The capacity of the NuScale module - a pressurised water reactor with all the components for steam generation and heat exchange incorporated into a single unit - has since been uprated, firstly to a 60 MWe version and then, in November last year, to 77 MWe per module. UAMPS said it would evaluate options for power plant size - the so-called 4-pack, 6-pack, 8-pack or 12-pack module configurations - to ensure the best overall way to meet the needs of its members.

According to a report by the American Nuclear Society (ANS), UAMPS' participants have now decided that the plant will contain six 77-MWe modules giving an overall capacity of 462 MWe. This is about 64% less than the 720 MWe that could have been generated from 12 of the 60-MWe modules.

UAMPS plans to submit a combined licence application to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2024, and the change to six modules is not expected to delay the overall schedule, UAMPS spokesperson LaVarr Webb told ANS publication Nuclear News. "The project is in great shape and is on schedule … The first module is still scheduled to be operational in 2029, and the full plant in 2030," Webb said.

The number of participants in CFPP has also reduced from the original 33. "There are 28 project participants, with a number of outside utilities expected to join the project over the next several months to reach full subscription," Webb said.

UAMPS is a political subdivision of the State of Utah that provides wholesale electric-energy, transmission, and other energy services to community-owned power systems throughout the Intermountain West region of the USA. Its members are located California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming as well as in Utah. Energy from the CFPP will replace electricity from coal plants that are nearing the end of their life cycles. UAMPS has previously said the CFPP will enable its members to add significantly higher amounts of intermittent renewable energy, especially wind and solar, to energy portfolios, allowing many to completely decarbonise.
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Message par energy_isere » 31 juil. 2021, 22:49

suite de ce post du 10 juin 2021 http://www.oleocene.org/phpBB3/viewtopi ... 4#p2320794
Vogtle in-service dates and cost forecast revised

29 July 2021

Georgia Power today said it now projects an in-service date in the second quarter of 2022 for Vogtle unit 3 and in the first quarter of 2023 for Vogtle unit 4, three-to-four months later than previously expected for each unit. The total project capital cost forecast has been revised to reflect the updated schedule, resulting in a USD460 million increase to Georgia Power. Meanwhile, hot functional testing has been completed at Vogtle 3.

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Vogtle 3 and 4 pictured earlier this month (Image: Georgia Power)
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Message par energy_isere » 14 nov. 2021, 10:24

Concentration dans l' Uranium sur le sol US :
Uranium Energy to acquire Uranium One Americas

By NS Energy Staff Writer 10 Nov 2021

Upon closing, the deal will position Uranium Energy as the largest American uranium mining company

Uranium Energy has agreed to acquire Uranium One Americas from Uranium One Investments subsidiary Uranium One for $112m in cash.

The transaction also consists of the replacement of $19m in reclamation bonding.

Uranium One is claimed to be the world’s fourth-largest uranium producer and is part of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom.

Uranium One Americas’ assets are primarily situated in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, which is said to be the most productive in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium mining district in the western hemisphere.

Uranium Energy said that the deal will position the company as the largest American uranium mining company and create “hub-and-spoke” operations in Wyoming, anchored by the Irigaray plant of Uranium One Americas.

The transaction covers Uranium One Americas’ production-ready assets such as Christensen Ranch ISR Project with four fully installed wellfields, and six additional permitted or development-stage satellite ISR projects, combined with Uranium Energy’s Reno Creek Project.

In addition, the deal allows Uranium Energy to add a land package of around 100,000 acres in Wyoming’s prolific uranium-producing Powder River and Great Divide Basins, which include multiple under-explored, mineralised brownfield projects.

Uranium Energy said that the acquisition secures about 37.6 million pounds U3O8 in historically estimated measured and indicated resources and 4.3 million pounds U3O8 in historically estimated inferred resources.

Uranium Energy president and CEO Amir Adnani said: “We are very pleased that after a comprehensive and competitive bidding process, Uranium One elected to work with UEC to undertake the successful sale of their substantial uranium assets in the US.

“This is a highly accretive transaction for UEC and represents great value to our shareholders. The purchase price is equal to only 12% of our current enterprise value, yet the acquisition doubles the size of our production capacity in three key categories: total number of permitted U.S. ISR projects, resources, and processing infrastructure.”
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Message par energy_isere » 22 mars 2022, 08:49

Les sénateurs proposent un projet de loi d'interdiction d'importation d'Uranium Russe.
U.S. Senators introduce bill to ban U.S. imports of Russian uranium

The bill comes as the Biden administration has been weighing sanctions on Russian nuclear power company Rosatom, a major supplier of fuel and technology to power plants around the world

Timothy Gardner, Reuters News March 19, 2022


The bill comes as the Biden administration has been weighing sanctions on Russian nuclear power company Rosatom, a major supplier of fuel and technology to power plants around the world.

The administration's ban on U.S. imports of Russian energy, such as oil and liquefied natural gas, does not yet include uranium.

"While banning imports of Russian oil, gas and coal is an important step, it cannot be the last," said Senator John Barrasso, who introduced the bill.

Barrasso represents Wyoming, a state that could benefit from a revitalization in U.S. uranium mining.

"Banning Russian uranium imports will further defund Russia's war machine, help revive American uranium production, and increase our national security," he added.

The United States has over 90 nuclear reactors, more than any other country, and is heavily reliant on imported uranium. Russian uranium made up 16% of U.S. purchases in 2020, according to the Energy Information Administration, with Canada and Kazakhstan each providing 22%.

Russia also supplies a fuel called high-assay, low enriched uranium (HALEU) which is enriched up to 20% and could be used in advanced nuclear plants expected to be developed later this decade or in the 2030s.

The United States would likely need to move fast on building bigger domestic capacity to supply HALEU if a ban is enacted.

Kathryn Huff, who was nominated by President Joe Biden to be an assistant secretary for nuclear energy and is now a senior official in the U.S. Energy Department, told Barrasso in her nomination hearing on Thursday, "I think it is critically important that we wean ourselves off of unstable, untrustworthy sources of our critical fuels, including uranium."

The Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry's main trade group, supports development of a U.S. uranium industry. . An NEI spokesperson said the group was reviewing the bill and assessing "the potential impacts of fuel disruption on the U.S. nuclear fleet."

Many environmental groups and tribes have opposed expanding the industry on lands in the U.S. West.
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Message par energy_isere » 10 avr. 2022, 11:19

Un prospect de mine d'Uranium aux US : le Lance project en Wyoming.
Uranium Royalty acquires additional royalty on Lance Uranium Project in US

By NS Energy Staff Writer 04 Apr 2022

Uranium Royalty Corp. is the world's only uranium-focused royalty and streaming company and the only pure-play uranium listed company on the Nasdaq

Uranium Royalty Corp. (NASDAQ: UROY) (TSXV: URC) (“URC” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has acquired an additional 1% gross revenue royalty interest on the Lance In-Situ Recovery (“ISR”) Uranium Mine in Wyoming, USA operated by Strata Energy Inc. (“Strata”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Peninsula Minerals Limited (“Peninsula”).

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The Lance Project is an ISR uranium project located on the north-east flank of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, USA and is comprised of approximately 38,416 acres of mixed surface and mineral right holdings including private access agreements as well as state and federal mining claims. In its annual report for the year ended September 31, 2021, Peninsula disclosed a JORC resource comprised of measured and indicated resources of 15.8 Mlbs at an average grade of 494 ppm U3O8 and inferred resources of 37.8 Mlbs at an average grade of 474 ppm U3O8 for the Lance Project. The estimate was disclosed as of December 31, 2020.
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Message par energy_isere » 14 mai 2022, 15:47

Projet d'un réacteur BWRX-300 dans le Tennessee :
TVA eyes late 2022 or early 2023 for SMR licence application

13 May 2022

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) CEO Jeff Lyash said this would be the next milestone for project to build a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at Clinch River near Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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An artist rendering of a potential SMR facility at Clinch River (Image: TVA)

Lyash's comments were made in a conference call to discuss the authority's financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2022.

In February, TVA announced a new programme to explore advanced nuclear technology as part of its decarbonisation goals, with the pursuit of a construction licence application for an SMR at the Clinch River site one of its first tasks. It already has an early site permit (ESP) - issued by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2019 - which certifies that a site is suitable for the construction of a nuclear power plant from the point of view of site safety, environmental impact and emergency planning, but does not specify the choice of technology. The ESP means that "a lot of site-based risk … is already behind us," Lyash said.

Last year, TVA's board approved investment of up to USD200 million in a new nuclear programme centred on Clinch River, and the authority is now in the process of supporting the detailed design development of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's BWRX300 and developing the licensing application package, he said. "The milestone for that licence application, while we haven't said it yet, is most likely fourth quarter of 2023 or first quarter of 2024," Lyash said. "That's really the next decision point."

Design, cost estimates, schedules, and risk assessments are being developed in parallel with the licence application, and this will "put us at the next major gate" when TVA will be able to make a decision whether to go ahead with the next phases of design and procurement, he said.

In April, TVA announced a partnership with Ontario Power Generation which has also selected BWRX-300 for deployment at its Darlington site. This partnership will allow the companies to find efficiencies and share best practices through coordinating their SMR design and licensing efforts and also, potentially, construction and operation, Lyash said.
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Message par energy_isere » 04 juin 2022, 12:10

US brokers and traders increase uranium inventories

30 May 2022

The "vast majority" of uranium delivered in the USA in 2021 was of foreign origin, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Uranium inventory held by US brokers and traders has grown for the second consecutive year, and has almost tripled since 2019.

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Kazkh-origin uranium dominated US purchases in 2021 (Image: EIA)

The EIA's 2021 Uranium Marketing Annual Report includes detailed data on US uranium marketing activities over the last five years, as well as summary data back to 2000. These are based on information reported through an annual survey which collects data on contracts, deliveries and projected deliveries, enrichment services purchased, inventories, use in fuel assemblies, feed deliveries to enrichers, and unfilled market requirements for the next 10 years.

Owners and operators of US nuclear power plants purchased a total of 46.7 million pounds U3O8 (17,963 tU) of deliveries during 2021. Of this, 44.3 million pounds was of foreign origin, with Kazakhstan accounting for 35% of total deliveries, followed by Canada (14.8%) and Australia (14.4%). Russia accounted for some 6,314 million pounds - 13.5% of all deliveries.

Some 19% of the uranium delivered in 2021 was purchased under spot contracts at a weighted-average price of USD30.56 per pound. The remaining 81% was purchased under long-term contracts at a weighted-average price of USD34.71 per pound.

Contracted deliveries under existing purchase contracts for 2022-2031 of 180 million pounds U3O8, and unfilled uranium market requirements of 182 million pounds for the same period represent maximum anticipated market requirements of 362 million pounds U3O8 over the next 10 years for US owners and operators.

US commercial uranium inventories - including inventories owned by plant owners and operators, brokers, converters, enrichers, fabricators, producers, and traders - were 141.7 million pounds U3O8 at the end of 2021, the report found. This is 8% up from the 131 million pounds at the end of 2020. The majority of this inventory - 108.5 million pounds, 76% - is held by power plant owners and operators, with nearly 18% held by brokers and traders, and just under 6% held by convertors, enrichers, fabricators and producers.

This is the third year-on-year increase in inventory held by US brokers and traders, growing from 9.4 million pounds at the end of 2019 to 18.3 million pounds in 2020 to 25.2 million pounds at the end of 2021.

World Nuclear Association estimates that US reactors accounted for some 28% of world uranium requirements in 2021.

The inventory figures given in the EIA report are all provisional.
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Message par energy_isere » 10 juin 2022, 09:07

Un prospect d'Uranium (et de terres rares) en Alaska , le Bokan Mountain project.
Alaska uranium deposit attracts interest
As Washington lawmakers seek to ban uranium imports from Russia, Ucore's Ross-Adams mine at Bokan draws attention North of 60 Mining News - June 8, 2022

While Bokan Mountain has been explored by Ucore for its rare earths and critical minerals potential over the past 15 years, the property originally served as a domestic source of uranium for America's nuclear energy ambitions.
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Message par energy_isere » 25 juin 2022, 10:27

Aux USA le démantèlement complet n' est pas la seule option. La mise sous cocon pour plusieurs dizaines d'années est employée, ici pour un réacteur qui produisait du Plutonium militaire du milieu des années 50 à l' année 1971 :
New cocoon for US legacy reactor

24 June 2022

Work has begun on a protective enclosure for a former reactor on the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State. The K East Reactor is the seventh at the site to be placed in interim safe storage.

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Caption: Contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company places the structure's steel columns - each weighing up to 28 tons - around the reactor (Image: DOE EM)

The K East Reactor was built to produce plutonium for US defence purposes and operated from the mid-1950s until 1971. The steel cocoon is designed to protect the reactor building while the radioactivity in the deactivated reactor core decays over the next several decades, making it safer and easier to complete disposition of the reactor in the future.

Construction of the structure's steel frame, which is one of the DOE Office of Environmental Management's key construction priorities for 2022, could begin after workers finished backfilling and compacting the area around the former reactor before pouring a 6-foot (1.8-metre)-thick concrete foundation to support construction of the cocoon. The first steel columns for the enclosure were placed in mid-May.

The structural steel skeleton, with metal siding on the walls and roof to fully enclose the building, is expected to be finished by the autumn. The completed structure will be more than 150 feet wide and 120 feet tall, and has been designed to allow for routine inspections of the reactor, which will take place every five years.

According to the DOE Office of Environmental Management, about 80% of the buildings and auxiliary structures needed to support reactor operations are demolished and removed before cocooning takes place. The remaining 20% of the reactor complex, including the reactor core itself, is enclosed in a cement and steel, airtight and watertight structure which prevents any remaining radiation or contamination from escaping to the environment.

The Hanford site was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. Cleanup of the site is now managed by DOE's Richland Operations Office and the Office of River Protection. K East's "sister" reactor, the K West Reactor, will be the last of Hanford's nine plutonium production reactors to be cocooned. One reactor - the B Reactor - has been preserved as part of the US National Park Service's Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

DOE has shared a time-lapse video of the construction of the steel structure.
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Message par energy_isere » 16 juil. 2022, 12:15

Projet de stockage de combustible usé ''à sec'' an Nouveau Mexique. De quoi stocker 8680 tonnes de combustibles usés pendant 40 ans.

NRC issues final EIS on New Mexico used fuel facility

14 July 2022

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for Holtec International's proposed consolidated HI-STORE interim storage facility (CISF). The final EIS includes the NRC staff's recommendation that there are no environmental impacts that would preclude the NRC from issuing a construction and operation licence for environmental reasons.

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The proposed consolidated HI-STORE interim storage facility (Image: Holtec)
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Holtec submitted its application with the NRC for a 40-year licence for the initial phase of the project, for up to 500 canisters holding some 8680 tonnes of used fuels, in 2017. The company expects to increase this to a total of 1000 canisters in an additional 19 phases over the course of 20 years.
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Message par energy_isere » 16 juil. 2022, 14:41

Appel à la constitution d' un stock stratégique d'Uranium de 1 millions de pounds (385 tonnes) et qui soit domestique.
US NNSA initiates process to purchase strategic uranium

01 July 2022

The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has begun the process to initiate the USA's strategic uranium reserve, issuing a solicitation to purchase up to an estimated one million pounds of domestically-produced U3O8.

The solicitation - which is issued as a Request for Proposal (RFP) - is for purchase of uranium "provided by a vendor that has produced uranium at a domestic uranium recovery facility at any time since 1 January 2009," where a uranium recovery facility is defined as a licensed uranium mining, in-situ leach or milling facility. The vendor is not required to be currently producing uranium at a uranium recovery facility.

The uranium must be from inventory already in storage at the Honeywell Metropolis Works uranium conversion facility in Metropolis, Illinois, and must not have been "exchanged, swapped, or augmented with uranium imported from foreign countries and shall not have any peaceful-use or end-use restrictions."

The government anticipates making up to four individual awards of 100,000 to 500,000 pounds U3O8 for the total of 1 million pounds U3O8 (385 tU).

The US Congress allocated funding for the establishment of the reserve, to address challenges to the production of domestic uranium and ensure a backup supply in the event of a significant market disruption, in its 2020 budget. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in May confirmed to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that the Department of Energy (DOE) would make purchases for the reserve during the present calendar year.

The deadline for proposals is 1 August.

NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the DOE.
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