Uranium dioxide

So we kind of sat down and thought, all right, we approached it from a supply chain perspective.

What are the materials that the nuclear industry already has a developed supply chain for? So, you know, UO2 fuel, standard steel, try and avoid any exotic alloys.

So, um, temperatures that will facilitate regular steels.

Um, so we kind of, we approached it from, and then the modeling that we had to do to prove that out really focused on a materials palette that was available and affordable.

So we kind of sat down and thought, all right, we approached it from a supply chain perspective.

What are the materials that the nuclear industry already has a developed supply chain for? So, you know, UO2 fuel, standard steel, try and avoid any exotic alloys.

So, um, temperatures that will facilitate regular steels.

Um, so we kind of, we approached it from, and then the modeling that we had to do to prove that out really focused on a materials palette that was available and affordable.

So once you convert it, or I mean, excuse me, once you enrich it, you then have to deconvert it back to a solid from the gas phase.

That's either typically an oxide fuel, UO2.

Some advanced reactors want to have metal.

So on the advanced reactor side, that's another piece we have to develop.