“Worldwide, there’s not enough capacity to replace that gap from trusted sources,” Huff told the Washington Examiner. “So, it's our responsibility to encourage and incentivize that enrichment and conversion capability here in the US [United States] so that we can return to a time when we have a more fulsome capability.”
The Biden administration was therefore working to encourage and create new incentives to boost US domestic uranium enrichment and conversion capacity as quickly as possible, Huff, who heads up the Office of Nuclear Energy at the US Energy Department, said.
“[Russia] is no longer a trustworthy source of our fuel, and we need to find alternatives here and build up that supply chain," Huff said.
Russia still provided 20% of the existing US reactor fleet’s low enriched uranium, she added.