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Panelists talk domestic enrichment expansion at Global 2026
What fuels the future of nuclear? Whether it is low-enriched uranium, LEU+, or high-assay low-enriched uranium, one of the answers is in the question itself: fuel.
Earlier this week, the American Nuclear Society’s Fuel Cycle & Waste Management Division hosted Global 2026, with the theme of “Deploying Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Cycles.”
During one plenary session, “Fueling the Future of Nuclear,” panelists from Urenco USA, Centrus Energy, General Matter, and Global Laser Enrichment shared with attendees how the companies were contributing to the front end of the fuel cycle—more specifically, by launching or expanding their respective enrichment services.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by FCWMD
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Benjamin B. Cipiti (Sandia National Laboratories)
Session Organizers:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Alternate Chair:
Staff Producer:
Mich Leana (ANS)
The advent of advanced and small reactor designs has led to the need for new, non-traditional fuels such as accident-tolerant fuel, fuel salts, and TRISO fuels, many of which will use HALEU. As such, new fuel cycle needs have arisen for fabricating, storing, and transporting these fuels. For example, molten salt reactors may require a centralized salt processing facility. Moreover, since used HALEU fuel still contains valuable HALEU, it may prove economical to recycle HALEU fuel. This panel session explores front- and back-end fuel cycle needs to enable successful deployment of small and advanced reactors.
Benjamin Cipiti
Sandia National Laboratories
Michael Browne
LANL
Philip Gibbs
ORNL
Monica Regalbuto
INL
Temitope Taiwo
EGDS
Christina Leggett
Booz Allen Hamilton
Ken Marsden
Michael Whitehurst
Centrus
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