{"id":871,"date":"2026-01-11T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/doe-issues-2-7b-orders-to-scale-domestic-nuclear-leu-and-haleu-enrichment\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T13:33:38","slug":"doe-issues-2-7b-orders-to-scale-domestic-nuclear-leu-and-haleu-enrichment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/doe-issues-2-7b-orders-to-scale-domestic-nuclear-leu-and-haleu-enrichment\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE Issues $2.7B Orders to Scale Domestic Nuclear LEU and HALEU Enrichment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued its first production-scale task orders under a $2.7-billion uranium enrichment program launched in 2024, awarding $900 million each to Centrus Energy Corp., General Matter, and Orano Federal Services to expand domestic capacity for conventional low-enriched uranium (LEU) and high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) over the next decade. The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/doe-issues-2-7b-orders-to-scale-domestic-nuclear-leu-and-haleu-enrichment\/\">DOE Issues $2.7B Orders to Scale Domestic Nuclear LEU and HALEU Enrichment<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"1350\" height=\"709\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Uranium yellowcake is used in the preparation of uranium fuel that is used in nuclear reactors. Source: DOE\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/yellowcake-new-1200x630-2.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/yellowcake-new-1200x630-2.png 1350w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/yellowcake-new-1200x630-2-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/yellowcake-new-1200x630-2-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/yellowcake-new-1200x630-2-768x403.png 768w\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued its first production-scale task orders under a $2.7-billion uranium enrichment program launched in 2024, awarding $900 million each to Centrus Energy Cor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weathernuthaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}