General Atomics Uranium Resources
Innovation and Leadership Across the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
General Atomics Uranium Resources (GAUR), through its affiliates, contributes to the front-end nuclear fuel cycle with active uranium ISR production, uranium exploration, future uranium ISR development, uranium trading and agency, and a UF6 conversion services joint venture.
Heathgate Resources
A key contributor to GAUR's nuclear operating and technical expertise is Heathgate Resources which has been producing uranium in South Australia for over 25 years using environmentally responsible In-Situ Recovery (ISR) technology. Heathgate was the first uranium ISR operator in Australia and has produced over 65M lbs U3O8 from its Beverley/Four Mile mine for utilities and their nuclear power plants worldwide.
Grants Energy
Leveraging its ISR operating experience, technical depth, and strong market position, GAUR is advancing the Grants Precision ISR Project in New Mexico with a planned 30-year mine life from the nation's largest contiguous uranium resource. The project will support strategic U.S. energy independence objectives by reducing reliance on imports from risky jurisdictions and deploy (employ? utilize?) horizontal well technology for ISR uranium recovery - a first-of-its-kind innovative for uranium extraction.
TRIGA® Research Test Reactors
TRIGA® (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) fuel is produced at TRIGA International, a joint venture between General Atomics and Framatome. GA's TRIGA reactor is the most widely used non-power nuclear reactor in the world.
Nuclear Fuels Corporation
To effectively evaluate and pursue commercial and business development opportunities across the front-end nuclear fuel markets, Nuclear Fuels Corporation (NFC) markets all production from General Atomics' uranium mining assets and is also active in uranium trading. Insights gained through NFC's activities contribute to a robust market analysis and modelling toolkit and supports new business growth.
ConverDyn
GAUR is a partner in the ConverDyn joint venture alongside Solstice Advanced Materials (formerly Honeywell). ConverDyn purchases and markets UF6 conversion services from Solstice's Metropolis, Illinois facility, the only domestic conversion facility. The Metropolis plant feeds natural uranium (U3O8) and produces uranium hexafluoride (UF6) for enrichment and fabrication into nuclear fuel.
- Celebrating 25+ years as owner and operator of one of the top 10 uranium mines in the world, producing 4-5 million pounds of uranium per year in South Australia.
- Permitting the largest contiguous uranium resource in the U.S. near Grants, New Mexico which will displace imports and increase U.S. energy security.
- Selling more than 65 million pounds of U3O8 to global customers during the past two decades.
- Partner in the ConverDyn joint venture, which sells UF6 conversion services to utility customers from the only U.S. uranium conversion facility at Metropolis, Illinois.
- GA's TRIGA® (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactor is the most widely used non-power nuclear reactor in the world. GA has installed 66 TRIGA reactors at universities, government and industrial laboratories, and medical centers in 24 countries.