What is the Department of Energys role in providing the centrifuge technology and facility to USEC?
In June 2002, USEC and DOE signed an agreement that allows USEC to use DOE gas centrifuge technology and provides a schedule for development of the Lead Cascade and commercial-scale facilities. On September 19, 2002, USEC and DOE announced the signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement that would allow USEC to further develop DOE’s gas centrifuge technology. USEC located the Lead Cascade in an existing DOE gas centrifuge building at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) site in Piketon Ohio.
