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ASP Isotopes

ASP Isotopes

🇺🇸 Washington, US · Founded 2021 · Active

ASP Isotopes is an isotope enrichment company that files with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and traces its technology to South Africa's uranium enrichment programme of the 1980s. It uses two processes: an aerodynamic separation process, a stationary-wall technique similar to a centrifuge that suits lighter gases, and what it calls quantum enrichment, which uses precisely tuned lasers to ionise and collect a chosen isotope. Its current products are isotopes for medicine and semiconductors, such as carbon-14, silicon-28 and molybdenum-100. Its subsidiary Quantum Leap Energy covers nuclear fuel: it says it believes the technology can be developed to enrich uranium to high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU, 5 to 19.99% uranium-235) and lithium-6 for fusion fuel, and it cites a HALEU supply partnership with TerraPower.

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Sector
Fuel cycle
Fuel
High-assay low-enriched uranium
Role
Supplier

Terms

High-assay low-enriched uranium
High-assay low-enriched uranium: uranium enriched to between 5% and just under 20% uranium-235, as the US Department of Energy defines it. It is still formally low-enriched, because the international line for highly enriched uranium is 20%, which is why many designs specify 19.75%. The binding supply constraint for many advanced reactor designs. The 5 to 10% part, which carries lighter US physical-security requirements than material from 10% up, is also tagged as LEU+. A developer calling fuel in that band 'LEU' is making a labelling choice, not describing a different enrichment.

People

  • Paul E. MannChairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer · founder
  • Gerdus KempMD, PhD Medical Director, CEO of PET Labs
  • Hendrik StrydomPhD Chief Technology Officer
  • Xandra van HeerdenPhD Head of Research and Development
  • Duncan MoorePhD Non-Executive Director
  • Todd WiderMD Non-Executive Director
  • Prof. Mike GorleyPhD Non-Executive Director
  • Rob RyanNon-Executive Director

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