Responses to the Department of Energy’s rapid-fire request for subject matter expertise in licensing Centrus Energy Corp.’s latest centrifuge technology were due Monday.
The agency released the request for information on Wednesday. Responses were due Thursday, but DOE bumped the due-date past the weekend and on to Monday.
The agency is looking for someone with “an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for Nuclear Energy Subject Matter Expertise regarding the AC-100M Centrifuge Development and Licensing.”
DOE believes it will need between 40 and 200 hours of expertise each month, according to the request for information.
AC-100M is the technology Centrus is using at DOE’s Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio, to produce high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) under a contract awarded in 2022 and, with options, worth up to $1 billion over 10 years.
The HALEU would be used for DOE’s drive to help commercialize non light-water reactor designs.
