Global Laser Enrichment, LLC; (Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility); Notice of Receipt of Application for License; Notice of Consideration of Issuance of License; Notice of Hearing and Commission Order; Opportunity To Request a [Contested] Hearing; and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information and Safeguards Information for Contention Preparation

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [Docket No. 70-7033; CLI-26-3] Commissioners: Ho. K. Nieh, Chairman; David A. Wright; Bradley R. Crowell; Matthew J. Marzano; Douglas W. Weaver. (i) Receipt of Application and Availability of Documents The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received an application from Global Laser Enrichment, LLC (GLE) for a license to possess and use special nuclear material for the purpose of constructing and operating a uranium enrichment facility in McCracken County, Kentucky. [ 1 ] GLE is a Delaware limited liability company that is indirectly owned, through subsidiaries, by parent companies Silex Systems Limited, an Australian company with a 51 percent ownership interest in GLE, and Cameco Corporation, a Canadian corporation with a 49 percent ownership interest in GLE. The requested license would authorize GLE to possess equipment capable of enriching uranium, to construct and operate a uranium enrichment facility, and to receive title to, own, acquire, receive, possess, use, transfer, and/or deliver source material, special nuclear material, and byproduct material as specified in the license for a facility that uses laser-based isotope separation technology to enrich uranium. The facility would be known as the Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility (PLEF) and would be located adjacent to the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. [ 2 ] The requested license would authorize the PLEF to re-enrich depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF 6 ) tails and enrich …