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New company throws hat into uranium conversion ring
Officially launched at CERAWeek 2026, held last week in Houston, Texas, FluxPoint Energy has unveiled plans to develop what it expects to be the first new U.S. uranium conversion facility in more than 70 years, a move aimed at strengthening America’s nuclear fuel supply chain.
The Houston- and McLean, Va.–based company plans to convert uranium oxide into uranium hexafluoride (UF₆), a critical intermediate step in producing fuel for the nation’s existing nuclear reactors as well as next-generation technologies under development.
C. E. Kessel, T. Bohm, M. S. Tillack, P. Titus, Y. Zhai
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 77 | Number 7 | October-November 2021 | Pages 519-531
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2021.1909988
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Restraining the size of fusion power plants is considered an important avenue to make them a competitive energy source among other forms of energy production. The most critical contributor to the size of a tokamak is the inboard radial build, composed of multiple components with various functions. This build is the ultimate limit to size reduction. The Fusion Nuclear Science Facility is reviewed and each element of the inboard build is described, showing that the build, including breeding blanket, structural ring, vacuum vessel, low-temperature shield, and toroidal field and central solenoid (CS) coils, contributes 2.9 m of build, with 0.6 m of bore hole inside the CS coil, or 3.5 m to reach the plasma scrape-off layer. This implies that it would be challenging to make a significantly smaller build and simultaneously meet all the engineering requirements.