General Matter, a nuclear energy company, has signed a lease with the United States Energy Department to build a trade enrichment facility of $ 1.5 million in the old Federal Gaseous Dissemination Federal Paducah, Ky., To expand American nuclear energy.
With the support of the technological entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the San Francisco company has provided little details about the installation planned on a plot of 100 hectares on the place where the uranium enrichment of defense related for more than 60 years took place. The construction will begin next year, with the enrichment operations planned for 2034, by what the company calls “a new, scalable and competitive costs technology”. No selection of the contractor has been announced. The general subject is one of the four companies that the Government chose by 2024 to provide enrichment services to develop a domestic large -test domestic supply and enriched basses for critical power for advanced advanced manufacturing and manufacturing centers, according to DOE. The lease also provides a general subject of at least 7,600 existing uranium hexafluoride cylinders to supply fuel for future re-enrichment operations. Reprocessing will save about $ 800 million in elimination costs.
The lease is part of a treatment of 3,556 hectares of federal property near Paducah selected by the federal government in 1950 for a gaseous dissemination enrichment plant designed to support military reactors and weapons. It was the only operating uranium enrichment installation in the country when it closed in 2013, as it has been under lease since 1993 to produce material for commercial nuclear reactors. Since then, DOE has overseen efforts to solve pollution by the groundwater and disable the facilities for demolition.
Last year, Global Laser Enrichment announced the purchase of a plot of 665 hectares adjoining Paducah for a facility that will use laser technology, instead of centrifugal, to enrich the uranium of DOE waste by -products. The firm has presented environmental and security analysis for federal review, with the plans to start the operation of the plants by 2030.
Encore Energy has also begun building new on -site recovery facilities on its UPPER SPRING CREEK URANI project in Texas. Under a license for extended state radioactive materials, the work includes the preparation of the site, the construction of Wellfield, the new support infrastructure and the discharge of concrete foundations for a new unit of exchange of satellite ions linked to a central uranium processing plant in Rosita. It is planned to start recovering uranium by the end of the year and increasing production by 2026.
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The new U.S. useful solar energy capacity will be added by 2025.If it was performed, the plot would represent more than half of the total power that developers have to carry online this year, the highest since 2002. That year, 58 GW capacity were added to the American network, although 1 GW fed by natural gas.
Source: United States Energy Information Administration, June 2025
Ferrovial expands to the United States solar energy sector
Photo of the solar site of Mexico courtesy of Ferrovial
The Ferrovial World Infrastructure Firm, Ferrovial, said that on August 26, he invested about $ 355 million to develop a 250 MW solar energy installation in the County of Milam, Texas, for which he will manage the construction, operation and maintenance. The project would produce energy by 2027, providing about 450 GWh annually on the Texas network. The construction will begin in the coming months, generating about 300 jobs, said María José Esteruelas, CEO of Ferrovial Energy. The company also said that it also hopes to produce 475 GWH of power annually next year from a plant in the Leon County that is being built and operated, with its investment of $ 72 million on a renewable project in the United States. Ferrovial is also building a 72 MW solar plant with a 60 MW battery energy storage system in Houston for the renewable X-Elio developer and energy storage. This company said that solar energy has worked in Mexico (see photo above) since 2018.
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