LEU - More Information

NFS has a long history of specialty nuclear fuel production. Take a look:

• More than 15 years of production of uranium metal from uranium hexafluoride (UF6) via UF6 to UF4 direct hydrogen conversion and reduction of UF4 to metal using calcium or magnesium metal. Processed depleted, natural, LEU and HEU (93%) uranium.
  
• 10 years of melting/casting uranium metal - both solid U and as alloy (molybdenum, for example) blocks or simple shapes.
  
• Three years of production of HEU (20% - 93%) uranium metal via UF6 to UF4 direct organic conversion (direct green) and subsequent reduction to the metal.
  
• More than 37 years of production of oxides of uranium from UF6 via the ADU process. NFS also produced tonnage quantities of LE oxide from UF6 via the ADU process.
  
• NFS obtained the initial patent for downblending of HEU to LEU and installed the system that has downblended HEU into tonnage quantities of LEU.
  
• More than 35 years of HEU and LEU scrap recovery experience from all types of scrap (metal, oxides, ash, trash, carbon matrices, zinc, etc.), producing tonnage quantities of purified uranium product.