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Lab directors and industry partners say domestic HALEU supply is essential for advanced reactor demonstrations
Summary
Directors told the subcommittee that high‑assay low‑enriched uranium (HALEU) is critical to many advanced reactor designs, outlined lab support to industry and described a DOE reprocessing path to produce domestic HALEU from legacy spent fuel.
WASHINGTON — Witnesses told the House Science subcommittee that HALEU (high‑assay low‑enriched uranium) is essential to many advanced reactor designs and that timely availability of the material is important to near‑term demonstrations under the Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP).
John Wagner, director of Idaho National Laboratory, said HALEU "is essential to reactor concepts. The supply of that material is incredibly important and the timely supply of that material is important." Wagner said Idaho National Laboratory has stocks of HALEU and is "working with the department to…
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