Advanced materials company ASP Isotopes, together with its Quantum Leap Energy LLC subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Fermi America to look into the development of a facility to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium using laser-based isotope separation technology in Texas.
 

Global Laser Enrichment has submitted its Safety Analysis Report for the planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. This follows its submission in December 2024 of the Environmental Report, now completing GLE's full licence application for NRC review.

The company's American Centrifuge Operating, LLC subsidiary has met the 900 kg production target for the second phase of its three-phase contract to supply the US Department of Energy with high-assay, low-enriched uranium.

The US Department of Energy has exercised an option to extend the contract for the production of high-assay, low-enriched uranium until 30 June 2026, but additional options could allow for continued production for up to eight more years.

The International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has told the agency's board of governors "nuclear facilities must never be attacked, regardless of the context or circumstances, as it could harm both people and the environment".