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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-26-005448"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LTBR"
cik: "0001084554"
company_name: "LIGHTBRIDGE Corp"
filed_at: "2026-09-08T20:15:32+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-09-08T20:17:11.545390+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lightbridge selected for DOE Launch Pad INL; SHED facility to accelerate LTA production

## Summary
- Selected by DOE's NRIC to participate in Launch Pad INL; will build SHED facility at Idaho National Laboratory.
- SHED will manufacture Lead Test Assemblies under DOE authorization, bypassing NRC licensing for pilot scale; LEFF proceeds separately under NRC licensing.
- Preliminary cost estimates: existing cash expected to fund construction, operation, and decommissioning of SHED; facilities privately financed.
- Utilities seek LTAs in commercial reactors by mid-2030s and large-scale use by 2040; Lightbridge aims to beat that timeline.
- Lightbridge Fuel designed to raise reactor power output up to 10% (existing), 20% (high-capacity steam generators), ~1/3 (new builds), with enhanced safety margins.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-26-005448
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LTBR
- cik: 0001084554
- company_name: LIGHTBRIDGE Corp
- filed_at: 2026-09-08T20:15:32+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084554/000147793226005448/0001477932-26-005448-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084554/000147793226005448/ltbr_8k.htm

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