tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310535410154673578.post8415982442784178445..comments2024-03-18T18:23:58.356+01:00Comments on Atom Watch: Idaho Selected By AREVA For $2 Billion Uranium Enrichment PlantAlexandra Prokopenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13558622592614895887noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1310535410154673578.post-84654259486235329182008-05-10T18:06:00.000+02:002008-05-10T18:06:00.000+02:00Urenco's Louisiana Energy Services (LES) unit awar...Urenco's Louisiana Energy Services (LES) unit awarded Washington Group International Inc. WNG.N a construction contract for the National Enrichment Facility, a uranium-enrichment plant near Eunice, New Mexico.<BR/><BR/>The $1.5 billion National Enrichment Facility will provide the United States <BR/><BR/>http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN0642356420070806<BR/><BR/>A third enrichment facility is already under construction <BR/><BR/><BR/>USEC Inc. (USU.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Bethesda, Maryland, is the only company currently producing enriched uranium in the United States. USEC operates an enrichment facility in Paducah, Kentucky that uses gaseous diffusion technology, which is less efficient than gas centrifuge technology.<BR/><BR/>-aa2<BR/><BR/>Like Urenco, USEC is working on a gas centrifuge facility called the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio with a capacity of 3.8 million SWU. The latest cost estimate for the American Centrifuge plant is $2.3 billion, up from an estimate of $1.7 billion last year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com