Centrus and ConverDyn Sign MOU to Explore Joint Sales and Business Development Opportunities

BETHESDA, Md. – Centrus Energy Corp. (NYSE MKT: LEU) announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with ConverDyn to explore the potential for joint sales of the companies’ nuclear fuel products and services to utility customers around the world.

“We believe that, working together with ConverDyn, we can provide customers the benefits of flexibility in satisfying their fueling needs while strengthening the U.S. nuclear supply chain,” said Daniel B. Poneman, Centrus president and chief executive officer.

Malcolm Critchley, ConverDyn President, stated: “By working with Centrus, ConverDyn is able to better capitalize on its position in the value chain by combining uranium supply and conversion with Centrus’ enrichment to create integrated supply solutions for customers.”

The MOU establishes a framework to work together to pursue various commercial initiatives to support greater competition in the world nuclear fuel cycle, including through sales of enriched uranium product containing components supplied by each party.  Such sales could occur in a variety of potential transaction structures where each party would supply a different component of the enriched uranium product and one or both parties would contract with the customer for the sale.

About Centrus Energy Corp.

Centrus Energy Corp. is a trusted supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants in the United States and around the world. Our mission is to provide reliable and competitive fuel goods and services to meet the needs of our customers, consistent with the highest levels of integrity, safety, and security.

About ConverDyn

ConverDyn supplies over 60% of global nuclear power plants from the world’s largest UF6 conversion facility in Metropolis, Illinois—a strategic U.S. energy asset. ConverDyn is a general partnership between U.S. firms General Atomics and Honeywell.

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