Advanced Reactors / Urenco Signs Enrichment Contract With French HTGR Developer Jimmy

French company’s microreactor design will use Triso fuel

Urenco Signs Enrichment Contract With French HTGR Developer Jimmy
Uranium enrichmnt equipment at a Urenco facility. Courtesy Urenco.

Anglo-German-Dutch uranium enrichment company Urenco has signed a contract with France-based nuclear technology developer Jimmy to supply low-enriched uranium plus (LEU+) for its high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) micro reactor development project.

Urenco said in a statement that a first delivery is to be made in 2026 from Urenco’s US plant site in Eunice, New Mexico.

Jimmy says it designs reactors that provide industrial heat as an alternative to fossil fuels in support of decarbonisation efforts. Jimmy’s proposed 20-MWt microreactor design will use tristructural-isotropic (Triso) fuel.

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