Centrus, X-energy sign enrichment contract as TRISO-X expands TX-1 campus

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Centrus, X-energy sign enrichment contract as TRISO-X expands TX-1 campus

https://www.ans.org/news/2026-08-07/article-8279/centrus-xenergy-sign-enrichment-contract-as-trisox-expands-tx1-campus/

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Centrus Energy will supply low-enriched uranium and high-assay, low-enriched uranium to X-energy for its Xe-100 small modular reactors and TRISO-X fuel production. Simultaneously, TRISO-X acquired 70 acres adjacent to its Oak Ridge facility to support ongoing construction. This expansion increases the site to 180 acres, following the receipt of a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license in February for HALEU fabrication at the TX-1 campus.

Centrus Energy Corp. will be providing X-energy with enrichment services for low-enriched uranium and high-assay, low-enriched uranium to support X-energy's planned deployments of Xe-100 small modular reactors and TRISO-X fuel, according to the terms of a new contract signed by the companies. The fuel will be produced at Centrus's American...

Building out and derisking: Centrus has been pursuing an aggressive build-out of its commercial LEU and HALEU enrichment capacity in the United States and a strategy of obtaining derisked funding to strengthen its capital stack. That strategy includes prepayments in HALEU offtake agreements, such as the prepayments deal with X-energy, as well as a recent Department of Energy award of $900 million for HALEU enrichment at Piketon.

Read the full article at ans.org:
https://www.ans.org/news/2026-08-07/article-8279/centrus-xenergy-sign-enrichment-contract-as-trisox-expands-tx1-campus/