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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. december 2013 / Time Line December 17, 2013
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12/17/2013
Sole U.S. Uranium Enricher to Pursue Bankruptcy
The only domestic U.S. uranium-enrichment company on Monday said it
plans to seek bankruptcy within months, the New York Times
reports.
The company, The United States Enrichment Corporation, still plans
by 2017 to wrap up development of a new-generation enrichment
centrifuge. However, its latest financial move could complicate
efforts to secure federal funding for the American Centrifuge Plant
in Piketon, Ohio, beyond $257 million in Energy Department grants
awarded since 2011, according to the newspaper.
Control of the centrifuge project might go to the Energy Department
as a result of the bankruptcy. It is unclear, though, if Washington
would push the enrichment initiative forward to completion, the
Times reported. The effort is already 12 years behind schedule, and
its projected $6.5 billion expense is nearly four times greater
than its original $1.7 billion cost estimate, writes Global
Security Newswire.
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