US Rebuilding Nuclear Fuel and Uranium Enrichment Production
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6A60Z)
Between 1985 to 2015, U.S. uranium enrichment capacity fell to nearly zero from 27.3 million Separative Work Units a year, while Russia's Tenex became a world leader, increasing production to 26.6 million SWU a year from just 3 million in the mid-eighties. [Statement source: figures by Centrus and U.S. Energy Information Administration. However, Urenco has ...