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Centrus Energy

NYSE: LEU38Laggard· Provisional
0 followersNuclear / SMR·Bethesda, United States·Founded 1992
www.centrusenergy.com/

Centrus Energy is the only US producer of HALEU enriched uranium, operating the first new US-owned enrichment plant since 1954 at Piketon, Ohio, supplying fuel for advanced reactor programmes.

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Greenwashing risk: mediumData confidence: medium

Why it's on ClimateTicker

Centrus Energy is a genuine nuclear fuel supply-chain enabler: its HALEU enrichment operation at Piketon, Ohio is a critical upstream input for advanced reactors that produce carbon-free electricity, making it a real, if indirect, climate-mitigation asset. However, Centrus itself is an industrial fuel processor with a legacy contamination liability (Portsmouth GDP site), no published SBTi-validated targets, no CDP disclosure, and essentially zero public ESG reporting — so the climate thesis rests almost entirely on the downstream impact of nuclear energy rather than on the company's own operational or governance credentials.

enablerCentrus sells separative work units (SWU) and uranium to existing nuclear utilities, and earns government contract revenue through its Technical Solutions segment for HALEU demonstration and enrichment capacity expansion work funded by the U.S. DOE.

Controversy & Greenwashing Watch

mediumStockholder 'Poison Pill' Breach-of-Fiduciary-Duty Claim

A stockholder sued Centrus's board alleging the 4.99% ownership-trigger rights plan was not narrowly tailored to protect NOL carryforwards as required under Delaware law.source ↗

mediumPersonal Injury Litigation — Rose v. Centrus Energy

A personal injury complaint was filed against Centrus in 2023 in federal court in Ohio, related to prior cases connected to the Portsmouth centrifuge plant site.source ↗

highPortsmouth GDP Off-Site Contamination Class Actions

Centrus and co-defendants were named in multiple class-action suits (2019–2023) by residents within a seven-mile radius of the Portsmouth GDP site alleging off-site contamination from historical enrichment operations.source ↗

lowDOE Contract Breach Settlement ($24M)

Centrus settled a long-running breach-of-contract dispute with the U.S. Department of Energy in January 2018 for $24 million covering work performed between 2003 and 2011.source ↗

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