LTBR Shareholder/Stockholder Letter Transcript:
2024
Annual Report to
Stockholders
Directors and Officers
Board of Directors
Executive Officers
SETH GRAE
SETH GRAE
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chairman of the American Nuclear
Society s International Council
President and Chief Executive Officer
LARRY GOLDMAN, C.P.A.
Chief Financial Officer & Corporate Secretary
SWETA CHAKRABORTY, PH.D.
ANDREY MUSHAKOV, PH.D.
Chief Executive Officer
We Don t Have Time U.S.
Executive Vice President Nuclear Operations
JESSE FUNCHES
Former Chief Financial Officer U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
SHERRI GOODMAN
Vice-Chair U.S. State Department
International Security Advisory Board
DANIEL B. MAGRAW
Senior Fellow and Professorial Lecturer,
Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies
MARK TOBIN
Chief Financial Officer
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Corporate Information
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2024 ANNUAL MEETING
Thursday, May 8, 2025
11:00 a.m. ET
Online Access:
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About Lightbridge
Lightbridge Corporation (NASDAQ: LTBR) is focused on developing advanced nuclear
fuel technology essential for delivering abundant, zero-emission, clean energy and
providing energy security to the world. The Company is developing Lightbridge Fuel , a
proprietary next-generation nuclear fuel technology for existing light water reactors
and pressurized heavy water reactors, significantly enhancing reactor safety,
economics, and proliferation resistance. The Company is also developing Lightbridge
Fuel for new small modular reactors (SMRs) to bring the same benefits plus loadfollowing with renewables on a zero-carbon electric grid.
Lightbridge has entered into two long-term framework agreements with Battelle Energy
Alliance, LLC, the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) operating contractor for
Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the United States' lead nuclear energy research and
development laboratory. DOE's Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN)
program has twice awarded Lightbridge to support the development of Lightbridge
Fuel over the past several years. Lightbridge is participating in two university-led studies
through the DOE Nuclear Energy University Program at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Texas A&M University. An extensive worldwide patent portfolio backs
Lightbridge's innovative fuel technology. Lightbridge is included in the Russell
Microcap Index. For more information, please visit www.ltbridge.com.
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Lightbridge surrogate rods used for a thermal-hydraulic flow
experiment
CEO Letter to
Stockholders
To our Valued Shareholders,
As we reflect on Lightbridge's achievements in 2024, I am pleased to report
significant progress in our mission to revolutionize nuclear fuel technology during
this unprecedented period of public and private sector support and growing
recognition of nuclear power's essential role in our clean energy future, which has
created an extraordinary opportunity for Lightbridge.
Strategic Developments and Technical Progress
I am particularly excited about our memorandum of understanding with Oklo,
signed in January 2025. This collaboration explores co-locating our commercialscale fuel fabrication facilities and presents promising opportunities for advanced
fuel recycling. Given Oklo's focus on uranium-zirconium fuel using high assay low
enriched uranium (HALEU), we anticipate potential synergies in fuel fabrication and
spent fuel reprocessing.
At Idaho National Laboratory (INL), we
achieved a crucial manufacturing milestone
with the successful demonstration of our
proprietary co-extrusion process. Our team
produced an eight-foot-long fuel sample
combining
a
uranium-zirconium
fuel
mixture with an outer zirconium alloy
cladding. INL is currently conducting a
detailed characterization of this sample,
Oklo CEO Jacob Dewitte and Lightbridge and we plan to proceed with enriched
CEO Seth Grae interviewed by Liz Claman uranium and zirconium alloy extrusions for
irradiation testing in the Advanced Test
on The Claman Countdown
Reactor.
Independent Validation and Research
The TopFuel 2024 conference in Grenoble, France featured three significant
technical papers about Lightbridge Fuel. Independent simulation studies from MIT
and Structural Integrity Associates (SIA), supported by U.S. Department of Energy
grants, confirmed our fuel's expected enhanced safety and performance
characteristics. The MIT study highlighted our fuel's increased heat transfer area,
lower operating temperature, and higher critical heat flux margin in NuScale's VOYGR
small modular reactor. The SIA study confirmed expected superior performance of
Lightbridge Fuel under accident conditions in Pressurized Water Reactors.
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An engineering study by RATEN ICN also demonstrated that our fuel, using
enrichment below 5% uranium-235, can provide approximately double the discharge
burnup of current CANDU reactor fuel. This finding opens exciting possibilities for
future applications.
Future Steps Toward Fuel Development and Commercialization
We have established clear development milestones for Lightbridge Fuel over the
next two to three years. At Idaho National Laboratory, we plan to produce samples,
coupons, and rodlets necessary for testing under our agreements, culminating in the
casting and extrusion of enriched uranium fuel material samples for irradiation
testing in Idaho National Laboratory s test reactors.
We are advancing our modeling
capabilities through the development
and validation of Lightbridge-specific
methods and modifications to existing
codes. This work is essential for
accurately
predicting
our
fuel's
performance across all operating
conditions for which it will be
licensed. Simultaneously, we are
developing a comprehensive Fuel
Qualification Plan to support licensing
of our fuel rods, assemblies, and
components in relevant operational
scenarios.
Lightbridge and INL teams at Idaho
National Laboratory
Heated-up billet assembly being loaded into the
extrusion press prior to co-extrusion
Our regulatory strategy includes preparing
and submitting to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) an Engagement Plan
outlining our approach to interfacing with
the NRC regarding license applications and
supporting
documentation.
On
the
manufacturing front, we continue to refine
our co-extrusion process for cladded rodlets
and are progressing with site selection for
our Lightbridge Pilot Fuel Fabrication Facility.
This facility will be crucial for producing fuel
samples, coupons, rodlets, and full-length
fuel rods for lead test assemblies.
The recently signed MOU with Oklo will explore co-location opportunities for a
Lightbridge Commercial Scale Fuel Fabrication Facility on Oklo s proposed site which
could support manufacturing full-length fuel rods at batch reload quantities.
Critical to our development pathway is a series of planned thermal-hydraulic
experiments. These tests will confirm pressure drop, critical heat flux performance,
and other essential parameters of Lightbridge Fuel under various operating
conditions across different reactor types.
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3/24/2025 Letter Continued (Full PDF)