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title: "The DOE awards $2.7 billion in contracts for enriched uranium — a historic investment in domestic nuclear fuel capacity"
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url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/285820516.md"
description: "For the first time in decades, the United States is spending billions to enrich uranium on American soil. The Department of Energy announced $2.7 billion in contracts split among four companies, a sweeping effort to rebuild a domestic fuel supply chain that has withered since the Cold War while dependence on Russian enrichment services grew […]"
datetime: "2026-05-09T19:43:18.000Z"
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# The DOE awards $2.7 billion in contracts for enriched uranium — a historic investment in domestic nuclear fuel capacity

For the first time in decades, the United States is spending billions to enrich uranium on American soil. The Department of Energy announced $2.7 billion in contracts split among four companies, a sweeping effort to rebuild a domestic fuel supply chain that has withered since the Cold War while dependence on Russian enrichment services grew \[…\]

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