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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-22-009215"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LTBR"
cik: "0001084554"
company_name: "LIGHTBRIDGE Corp"
filed_at: "2022-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T05:56:41.267998+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lightbridge enters 7-year strategic partnership with Idaho National Lab for fuel development

## Summary
- Signed umbrella SPP and CRADA with Battelle Energy Alliance (INL/DOE) for 7-year initial term.
- Initial phase: irradiation testing of Lightbridge's delta-phase U-Zr alloy fuel samples in ATR with DOE-supplied enriched uranium.
- Subsequent phases include post-irradiation examination, loop testing in ATR, and transient experiments in TREAT.
- Data will support fuel performance modeling and licensing for commercial deployment of Lightbridge Fuel.
- CEO Seth Grae calls it a major milestone and foundation for advancing critical path fuel development.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-22-009215
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LTBR
- cik: 0001084554
- company_name: LIGHTBRIDGE Corp
- filed_at: 2022-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084554/000147793222009215/0001477932-22-009215-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084554/000147793222009215/ltbr_8k.htm

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