---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-058088"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LEU"
cik: "0001065059"
company_name: "CENTRUS ENERGY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T12:31:06.603301+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Centrus begins commercial centrifuge manufacturing for LEU enrichment; targets 2029 production

## Summary
- Company has started centrifuge manufacturing at Oak Ridge, TN, for commercial LEU enrichment at Piketon, OH.
- Backlog of $2.3B in contingent LEU sales contracts with U.S. and international customers.
- Project expected to create 1,000 construction and 300 operations jobs in Ohio; hundreds more in Tennessee.
- First new enrichment capacity expected to come online in 2029; also targets future HALEU production.
- Funding includes $1.2B in convertible notes, over $1.6B cash, $1B ATM offering, and DOE finalist for ~$900M task orders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-058088
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LEU
- cik: 0001065059
- company_name: CENTRUS ENERGY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-12-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065059/000162828025058088/0001628280-25-058088-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065059/000162828025058088/leu-20251219.htm

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