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The Consortium Fueling the Nuclear Renaissance
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The US Department of Energy has formally approved the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Consortium under the Defense Production Act, granting antitrust immunity to dozens of companies across mining, enrichment, reactor development, utilities, and component supply to coordinate planning and remove bottlenecks in the nuclear fuel chain. The consortium structure explicitly includes utilities and reactor operators, signalling coordinated infrastructure deployment alongside fuel security.
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If you supply any part of the nuclear fuel chain—uranium, enrichment, conversion, instrumentation, construction—you now have a formal coordination body backed by DOE oversight and antitrust immunity to plan with utilities and reactor builders. The bottleneck you've been waiting for permission to solve with competitors just got legal cover and government blessing.
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