The Piketon, Ohio, plant houses a cascade of 16 centrifuges, but there is room for 11,000 more. Though it hasn't built many new centrifuges, Centrus has plans to fill the facility. The complex ...
The IAEA did not elaborate on how many machines would be in each cascade but Iran has put around 160 centrifuges into a single cascade in the past. It's unclear if Iran has begun feeding the ...
In June 2023, the US regulator cleared the Piketon facility to begin enrichment operations. Piketon’s HALEU centrifuge cascade is expected to produce 20 kilograms of HALEU by the end of 2023 and 900 ...
The report describes plans to install 32 additional cascades, or groups, of approximately 174 centrifuges each, along with an unprecedented cascade of 1,152 advanced IR-6 centrifuges, according to ...
A cascade is a series of centrifuges hooked together to rapidly spin uranium gas to enrich it. An IR-6 centrifuge spins uranium 10 times faster than the first-generation centrifuges that Iran was ...