---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-25-002712"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ASPI"
cik: "0001921865"
company_name: "ASP Isotopes Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T15:02:35.673772+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ASP Isotopes plans spin-out of nuclear fuels unit QLE in 2H2025; adds Sipho Maseko to board

## Summary
- Company intends to separate Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) as a standalone public company during 2H 2025 via spin-out.
- Sipho Maseko, former Telkom CEO and Vodacom MD, appointed to ASPI board; receives 22,422 RSUs.
- CTO Hendrik Strydom leaves ASPI board to join QLE board of managers, focusing on HALEU/Lithium-6 in South Africa.
- Three new non-executive employees granted aggregate 250,000 restricted shares vesting over 4 years.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-25-002712
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ASPI
- cik: 0001921865
- company_name: ASP Isotopes Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1921865/000147793225002712/0001477932-25-002712-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1921865/000147793225002712/aspi_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001477932-25-002712.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sipho Maseko was appointed as Director at ASP Isotopes Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: the Board appointed Sipho Maseko as director
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1921865/000147793225002712/0001477932-25-002712-index.htm
- Executive change
  Hendrik Strydom departed as Director at ASP Isotopes Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Director
  source text: Dr. Hendrik Strydom, PhD, Chief Technology Officer of the Company, stepped down as a member of the board of directors of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1921865/000147793225002712/0001477932-25-002712-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.