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Urenco Group
The Urenco Group (urenco) is a multi-national limited company with shares and stocks majority owned by the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom with minority shares controlled by German electric utilities E.ON and RWE. The Urenco Group operates several uranium enrichment plants in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It supplies nuclear power stations in about 15 countries, and states that it had a 29% share of the global market for enrichment services in 2011. Urenco uses centrifuge enrichment technology.
Urenco, headquartered in Paddington, London England, is owned one third by the UK government, one third by the Dutch government, and the final third equally by two major German utilities, E.ON and RWE.
Urenco is owned in three equal parts by Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland NV (owned by the Government of the Netherlands), Uranit GmbH (owned equally by German energy companies E.ON and RWE) and Enrichment Holdings Ltd (owned by the Government of the United Kingdom and managed by UK Government Investments). The company was set up in 1971, pursuant to the Treaty of Almelo (named after the city in the Netherlands where the company originated), which restricts the sale of ownership stakes.
Urenco Deutschland, Urenco UK, and Urenco Nederland are 100% subsidiaries of Urenco Enrichment Company. They operate enrichment plants at Gronau, Westphalia, Germany, at Capenhurst, England, and at Almelo, Netherlands.
In the United States, where Urenco is represented by its marketing subsidiary Urenco, Inc., the Urenco USA facility became operational in spring 2010. Called the National Enrichment Facility, it is located 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Eunice, New Mexico, and is operated by Urenco's subsidiary Louisiana Energy Services (LES).
Urenco also owns a 50% interest in Enrichment Technology Company (ETC), a company jointly owned with Areva. ETC provides enrichment-plant design services and gas-centrifuge technology for enrichment plants through its subsidiaries in the UK (Capenhurst), Germany (Gronau and Jülich), the Netherlands (Almelo), France (Tricastin) and the U.S. (Eunice, New Mexico).
In 2025, infrastructure company Costain Group was contracted to upgrade the infrastructure at the Capenhurst plant. This will enable establishing Europe's first high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) enrichment facility.
Urenco Netherlands BV has dismantled enrichment plant SP3, after the decommissioning of SP1 and SP2 in the 1980s and 1990s. Information about decommissioning cost calculations for Urenco facilities is not accessible.
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Urenco Group
The Urenco Group (urenco) is a multi-national limited company with shares and stocks majority owned by the governments of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom with minority shares controlled by German electric utilities E.ON and RWE. The Urenco Group operates several uranium enrichment plants in Germany, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It supplies nuclear power stations in about 15 countries, and states that it had a 29% share of the global market for enrichment services in 2011. Urenco uses centrifuge enrichment technology.
Urenco, headquartered in Paddington, London England, is owned one third by the UK government, one third by the Dutch government, and the final third equally by two major German utilities, E.ON and RWE.
Urenco is owned in three equal parts by Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland NV (owned by the Government of the Netherlands), Uranit GmbH (owned equally by German energy companies E.ON and RWE) and Enrichment Holdings Ltd (owned by the Government of the United Kingdom and managed by UK Government Investments). The company was set up in 1971, pursuant to the Treaty of Almelo (named after the city in the Netherlands where the company originated), which restricts the sale of ownership stakes.
Urenco Deutschland, Urenco UK, and Urenco Nederland are 100% subsidiaries of Urenco Enrichment Company. They operate enrichment plants at Gronau, Westphalia, Germany, at Capenhurst, England, and at Almelo, Netherlands.
In the United States, where Urenco is represented by its marketing subsidiary Urenco, Inc., the Urenco USA facility became operational in spring 2010. Called the National Enrichment Facility, it is located 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Eunice, New Mexico, and is operated by Urenco's subsidiary Louisiana Energy Services (LES).
Urenco also owns a 50% interest in Enrichment Technology Company (ETC), a company jointly owned with Areva. ETC provides enrichment-plant design services and gas-centrifuge technology for enrichment plants through its subsidiaries in the UK (Capenhurst), Germany (Gronau and Jülich), the Netherlands (Almelo), France (Tricastin) and the U.S. (Eunice, New Mexico).
In 2025, infrastructure company Costain Group was contracted to upgrade the infrastructure at the Capenhurst plant. This will enable establishing Europe's first high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) enrichment facility.
Urenco Netherlands BV has dismantled enrichment plant SP3, after the decommissioning of SP1 and SP2 in the 1980s and 1990s. Information about decommissioning cost calculations for Urenco facilities is not accessible.