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Zoltek's Take: Another popular topic is the use of nuclear power in the United States. Many people see nuclear, wind, coal, etc. as competing forms of energy and that only one of them will be the chosen form of energy for the United States. With regards to our business, people tend to think that anything NOT WIND, would be bad for Zoltek. This article is interesting on two fronts. One, it provides further evidence that the carbon fiber market, and Zoltek, can capitalize on other sources of energy that are not named wind. Second, and maybe more important, is the fact that carbon fiber is REPLACING fiberglass in this process. While carbon fiber is more expensive on a per pound basis than fiberglass, carbon fiber has extraordinary properties that lead to extraordinary performance in numerous applications. This performance increase reduces the overall cost of many difference processes, and we can now add nuclear power to the list. In case you are wondering how many carbon fiber rotor tubes will go into USEC’s new American Centrifuge Plant (ACP), the answer is 11,500.
It’s important to note that we do not if these rotor tubes do or do not use Zoltek carbon fiber.