American PowerAug 6
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General Matter Lands $900M to Enrich Uranium in America
the u.s. department of energy will invest $2.7b in america’s ability to finally create its own nuclear fuel, a feat we haven’t been able to pull off since the 80s
Harris Sockel
Jan 9, 2026
Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $2.7b of investments in restoring America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel, specifically via enriching uranium on our shores.
Three companies won $900m each, paid out over the next decade: Orano Federal Services (headquartered in France), American Centrifuge Operating (a unit of Centrus Energy, originally spun out of the Department of Energy), and — the only startup on the list — General Matter. Last August, Pirate Wires profiled the company and founder Scott Nolan. Solana flew to Paducah, Kentucky, for the groundbreaking of General Matter’s uranium enrichment facility, built on the site of the defunct Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, America’s last active enrichment facility, which was shuttered by Barack Obama’s DOE in 2013. As Solana wrote at the time:
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