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New company throws hat into uranium conversion ring
Officially launched at CERAWeek 2026, held last week in Houston, Texas, FluxPoint Energy has unveiled plans to develop what it expects to be the first new U.S. uranium conversion facility in more than 70 years, a move aimed at strengthening America’s nuclear fuel supply chain.
The Houston- and McLean, Va.–based company plans to convert uranium oxide into uranium hexafluoride (UF₆), a critical intermediate step in producing fuel for the nation’s existing nuclear reactors as well as next-generation technologies under development.
Jean Baccou, Jinzhao Zhang, Philippe Fillion, Guillaume Damblin, Alessandro Petruzzi, Rafael Mendizábal, Francesc Reventos, Tomasz Skorek, Mathieu Couplet, Bertrand Iooss, Deog-Yeon Oh, Takeshi Takeda, Nils Sandberg
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 194 | Number 8 | August-September 2020 | Pages 721-736
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1759310
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Uncertainty analysis is a key element in nuclear power plant deterministic safety analysis using best-estimate thermal-hydraulic codes and best-estimate-plus-uncertainty methodologies. If forward uncertainty propagation methods have now become mature for industrial applications, the input uncertainty quantification (IUQ) on the physical models still requires further investigations. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development/Nuclear Energy Agency PREMIUM project attempted to benchmark the available IUQ methods, but observed a strong user effect due to the lack of best practices guidance. The SAPIUM project has been proposed toward the construction of a clear and shared systematic approach for IUQ. The main outcome of the project is a first “good-practices” document that can be exploited for safety study in order to reach consensus among experts on recommended practices as well as to identify remaining open issues for further developments. This paper describes the systematic approach that consists of five elements in a step-by-step approach to perform a meaningful model IUQ and validation as well as some good-practice guideline recommendations for each step.