Urenco has approved an investment to expand uranium enrichment capacity at its US site in New Mexico, known as UUSA – a move sparked largely by new commitments from US customers for non-Russian reactor fuel.

The project will see multiple new centrifuge cascades added to an existing plant, and will be the first project to be delivered as part of Urenco’s capacity programme, which will strengthen the nuclear fuel supply chain both in the US and globally.

Urenco Group is a British-German-Dutch nuclear fuel consortium operating several uranium enrichment plants in the US, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.