Centrus Energy Corp
Centrus Energy Corp is a USA company active in the nuclear fuel chain as enricher, haleu.
Successor to the United States Enrichment Corporation, itself the privatised enrichment arm of the Atomic Energy Commission. Its American Centrifuge Plant at Piketon, Ohio is the first US-owned, US-technology enrichment plant to produce in seventy years, and the only Western facility licensed to enrich to HALEU levels. Its output is measured in kilograms per year, not tonnes, the scale of the Western HALEU problem in one number.
| Headquarters | Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
|---|---|
| Founded | not recorded |
| Ownership | listed |
| Listing | NYSE: LEU |
| Roles in the chain | enricher, haleu |
Position in the chain
Downstream
Output from this company feeds the stages below it in the chain, and ultimately 419 operating reactors across these types.
| Reactor type | Operating units |
|---|---|
| Pressurised water reactor | 309 |
| Pressurised heavy water reactor | 46 |
| Boiling water reactor | 45 |
| Gas-cooled reactor | 9 |
| Light water graphite reactor | 7 |
| Fast reactor | 2 |
| High-temperature gas reactor | 1 |
Facilities
| Facility | Stage | Country | Capacity / output | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Centrifuge Plant, Piketon | haleu | USA | 900kg HALEU/yr | operating |
Centrus Energy Corp in context
Centrus Energy Corp has 1 facility on record in 1 country (United States): 1 operating. The oldest operating one was commissioned in 2023.
How these are worked out: shares and ranks use the world totals cited in the table, and only named companies are ranked (unnamed or country-level entries in a source are not). A facility with no stated capacity is counted as a facility but adds nothing to a capacity figure. Vendor figures count operating units where this company is the recorded reactor vendor; ages count from the start-up year on record, and build times run from construction start to grid connection, as on the age and build-times pages.
Sources
- Centrus Energy Corp, company source
- Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release , CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06
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