---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-22-009197"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LTBR"
cik: "0001084554"
company_name: "LIGHTBRIDGE Corp"
filed_at: "2022-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T06:38:12.160837+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lightbridge enters initial releases with Idaho National Lab for fuel fabrication and irradiation; $3.4M over 4 years

## Summary
- Initial releases under umbrella SPPA and CRADA with Battelle/INL to develop Lightbridge Fuel™.
- Scope: fabricate delta-phase enriched U-Zr alloy ingot, extrude fuel coupons, irradiate in Advanced Test Reactor.
- Lightbridge reimburses Battelle costs; DOE/Battelle contribute uranium feedstocks and irradiation hardware.
- Estimated cash payments to Battelle ~$3.4M (excl. contingencies) over four years on cost-reimbursable basis.
- Agreements have initial term of seven years from September 27, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-22-009197
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LTBR
- cik: 0001084554
- company_name: LIGHTBRIDGE Corp
- filed_at: 2022-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084554/000147793222009197/0001477932-22-009197-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084554/000147793222009197/ltbr_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  LIGHTBRIDGE Corp entered into a collaboration with Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC valued at approximately $3.4 million (effective 2022-12-09).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: collaboration
  - Counterparty: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
  - Value: approximately $3.4 million
  - Effective: 2022-12-09
  source text: On December 9, 2022, Lightbridge Corporation (“Lightbridge” or the “Company”) entered into initial releases with Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC (“Battelle”), the operating contractor of Idaho National Laboratory, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”), which releases set forth the initial scopes of work and funding commitments under an “Umbrella” Strategic Partnership Project Agreement and an “Umbrella” Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (together, the “Agreements”), each dated September 27, 2022, between the Company and Battelle.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084554/000147793222009197/0001477932-22-009197-index.htm

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