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DOE-EM: Oak Ridge's old K-25 uranium enrichment facility taken down, Orano's new Project IKE uranium enrichment facility coming up! ??? “What was once a massive gaseous diffusion plant used for nuclear weapons production dating back to the Manhattan Project is now a hub for the American advanced nuclear industry.” —DOE-EM Senior Advisor Roger Jarrell. After reading the story, follow the link in this post's Comments to our Project IKE Enrichment webpage. #ProjectIKE #uranium #HALEU #WMSym2025 #WMS2025 DOE Office of Environmental Management U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy | U.S. Department of Energy City Of Oak Ridge

#OnTheRoad with the NRC - "Nuclear Fuel Cycle Tour de France" ?? During their recent visits to Orano’s fuel cycle facilities in France, NRC Commissioner Bradley Crowell and team walked through all stages of our Georges Besse 2 facility’s enrichment operations at our Tricastin site. ? Orano is responding to significantly increasing global demand for uranium enrichment by expanding GB2’s capacity more than 30% ?? and developing a large American enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, named Project IKE. ??? ? DYK … ? ?? Orano is No. 3 worldwide for producing enriched uranium ?? More than 50 years of uranium enrichment operations at Orano’s Tricastin site ?? Enrichment production transitioned to the upgraded and modern GB2 facility in 2010 ?? GB2 uses efficient and proven centrifuges manufactured by ETC Global, a joint venture between Orano and Urenco Global ?? Nearly all non-Russian enriched uranium used by American nuclear reactors is produced using ETC centrifuges Take the GB2 tour yourself with this online interactive immersion experience: https://lnkd.in/dYBq6Y8x #ProjectIKE #uranium U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

We finally got "a round" to posting a pie recipe for Pi Day! ?? In celebration of this tasty day, our employees shared their go-to pie recipes. Here's one of our down-home favorites: Pecan Pie (be sure to add a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream). ?? Share this post and make more friends! #PiDay

That a wrap for WMS! ?? It was a week full of many great conversations, new possibilities, and expanding connections. Plus, we enjoyed the interest and many questions about our #ProjectIKE uranium enrichment facility development in Oak Ridge, TN. Watch for our speakers' abstracts turn into the full papers posted to our White Papers webpage (see link below) from our team's 18 presentations and panels about: ?? Packaging and transport for #HALEU, LEU+, high burnup cask, and used nuclear fuel ?? Advanced reactor used fuel mgmt & disposal ?? Using additive manufacturing to make impact limiters ??? Developing a significant, clean #Americium-241 powder supply from recycling UNF #itsonlywasteifyouwasteit ?? Decontaminating large components for Exempt disposal ?? #Vitrification with in-can melter ?? Transporting the segmented #DecomCR3 reactor to disposal ?? Aging mgmt inspections for UNF storage ?? much more! Orano White Papers: https://lnkd.in/egJJmKhr #WMSym2025 #wmsymposia WM Symposia, Inc

Using additive manufacturing to produce impact limiters for used nuclear fuel transport casks. Lots of interest in this Orano session wrapping up #WMSym2025 today. Read the white paper: https://lnkd.in/egJJmKhr

Last day to come by our Orano booth #909 and pick up our provided #STEM item, a Hidden Figures book for students, as part of the #WMSym2025 STEM Scavenger Hunt. #STEMed

How do you cut, package, and transport multi-ton sections of a nuclear reactor? Join Richard "Ricky" Furr for this morning’s #WMSym2025 session about our Crystal River 3 transport at 10:00 a.m. PT, Room 230. Read the details in the cover story for ANS Radwaste Solutions. Get your free copy in both #1015 or use the link in the Comments. #DecomCR3 American Nuclear Society

Used nuclear fuel ... It's only waste if you waste it! ?? Orano is developing a process to extract significant quantities of clean #Americium-241 as a powder oxide from its reserves of used nuclear fuel for powering new technologies like neutron sources and space batteries. Learn more about the process in this video and during today's #WMSym2025 panel at 08:55, Room 222C, “Industrial Manufacturing Process of AmO2 Powder from a Pu Solution: Separation, Conversion and Calcination.” Thierry Prevost, Charles Brachon, Guilhem Kauric #itsonlywasteifyouwasteit

Mark your schedule! ?? Many opportunities again today at #WMSym2025 to personally hear from the Orano panelists' expertise in your area of interest. The first four Orano panelists are speaking about enhanced used fuel dry storage, vitrification, Americium-241 production from recycling, and advanced reactor used fuel recycling. The second group are speaking about transporting the segmented Crystal River 3 reactor #DecomCR3, licensing the high burnup cask, improved diamond wire saw nuclear decom methods, and using additive manufacturing to build transport cask impact limiters. Read the abstracts: https://lnkd.in/egJJmKhr