Full Title: Background and Policy Issues – HALEU Fuel Supply
Author(s): Alan Ahn, Josh Freed
Publisher(s): Third Way
Publication Date: August 12, 2021
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Description (excerpt):
Multiple advanced reactor designs are swiftly approaching demonstration and deployment within the next several years. These reactors are vital foundations for a new clean energy tool in the fight against climate change, as well as a technology that is critical for American leadership in nuclear technology and policy, competitiveness in the global market, and job creation for Americans. However, a crucial bottleneck exists in the commercial supply of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU), which many of these rapidly progressing reactor technologies will require as fuel.