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Urenco USA's National Enrichment Facility in Eunice, New Mexico—America’s sole commercial enrichment facility—traces its U.S. roots to the 1992 Treaty of Washington, which authorized the deployment of Urenco centrifuge technology on American soil. Although the project was originally planned for Louisiana—and its licensed operator remains Louisiana Energy Services—the facility was built in southeastern New Mexico after the state offered local support. Construction began in 2006, and the facility received the NRC's first combined construction and operating license for a nuclear project in 2010—the same year it began producing enriched uranium. It completed its first customer delivery in March 2012. Since then, Urenco says it has invested about $5 billion in the facility, which now operates 64 cascades producing approximately 4.3 million SWU per year—roughly one-third of current U.S. demand. The illustration above depicts a new enrichment plant Urenco USA plans to build at the same site to add 2.1 million SWU of capacity. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2029, with initial LEU production starting in 2032 and full capacity online by 2036. Courtesy: Urenco USA

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America’s Only Commercial Uranium Enricher Is Privately Building a New Plant Amid a Widening Nuclear Fuel Supply Gap

Urenco USA, operator of the only U.S. commercial-scale uranium enrichment facility, will expand low-enriched uranium (LEU) capacity at its National Enrichment Facility (NEF) in Eunice, New Mexico, by nearly 50% through a privately funded, multibillion-dollar investment that includes construction of a new enrichment plant. The project will add 2.1 million separative work units (SWU) of […]

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