Urenco Nederland is Urenco’s Dutch enrichment facility based in Almelo. It is located close to the Dutch/German border, around 40km from our Dutch enrichment facility.
Key facts
Services
Enrichment
Two enrichment plants, SP4 and SP5, are in operation at our Almelo site. SP5 began operations in 2000 and produces more than 80% of Urenco Nederland’s total production capacity.
To meet growing customer demand for nuclear fuel services, construction of a new centrifuge hall is underway and progressing as planned. We intend to double the site’s expansion target by adding a further 1.5 million SWU of capacity, with the latter phase of the expansion planned to come online from 2030 onwards.
Isotopes
Our Urenco Isotopes business is also located in Almelo, where we use our centrifuge technology to produce a variety of isotopes for medical, industrial and research applications.
Each year, more than 2 million patient treatments are performed using nuclear medicines produced with Urenco's isotopes. Beyond healthcare, our isotopes help enable innovation in areas such as quantum computing, advanced materials and semiconductor technologies.
Creating positive impact
Sustainability
We have several initiatives on site to help reduce our environmental footprint.
We have around 8,000 solar panels on the roof of our storage building and on the carports in our carpark.
We are constructing an internal heat grid, to use the residual heat from our enrichment plant for heating buildings on site. This will allow us to become less reliant on natural gas. Discussions are ongoing to also become the source for an external heat grid.
We are replacing our cylinder handling vehicles with electric vehicles.
We achived a BREEAM 'excellent' rating for our latest office development.
Supporting our local communities
Supporting and engaging regularly with our local communities is key to our approach to sustainability. We sponsor various sporting and cultural activities throughout the year and volunteer to support residents, schools and charities.
Nurturing an interest in science and engineering among young people is also a key part of what we do. Every year, we facilitate science workshops and other educational activities for local schools.
Our major educational project for the past year has been to enable the local science museum Oyfo to create an interactive wall that helps introduce children to the various worlds of STEM.
Interested in joining our team?
See what it’s like working at Almelo on our life page, or view our job opportunities.
Visit us
Do you want to learn more about who we are and what we do at Urenco NL?
We are pleased to welcome visitor groups to our enrichment facilities in Almelo. Please fill out the visitor form and we will be happy to organise your visit.
If you aren't able to visit us in person you can learn about our enrichment facilities via our virtual tour.
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