RESTON, Va., April 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lightbridge Corporation (“Lightbridge” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LTBR), an advanced nuclear fuel technology company, announced its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, and provided an update on the Company’s continued progress.
Seth Grae, President & Chief Executive Officer of Lightbridge, commented, “The first quarter of 2026 reflects the depth and pace of Lightbridge’s program execution. We received patent allowances from three major jurisdictions—Canada, the United States, and the European Patent Office—expanding the scope of patent protection for Lightbridge Fuel™ across the CANDU fleet, the U.S. domestic light water reactor market, and 39 European contracting states. We also entered into an engineering contract with Stern Laboratories to launch a multi-phase thermal-hydraulics test program to support U.S. regulatory licensing of our fuel for light water reactors. We were selected to serve on the Industry Advisory Board of a $6 million DOE-funded research initiative at Penn State. And our technical team presented proprietary uranium-zirconium alloy research at TMS2026, contributing to the scientific foundation that underpins everything we are building.”
“We believe this is the most promising time for the growth of nuclear power in decades. Record global generation in 2025, sweeping U.S. executive action to accelerate reactor permitting and NRC reform, and landmark procurement commitments from the world’s largest technology companies have collectively shifted the industry from a question of ‘if’ to a question of ‘when and how fast.’ Lightbridge is building to be the answer to the ‘how’—specifically, how the existing global reactor fleet and new-build water-cooled reactors deliver more power and further enhanced safety, with improved economics.”
“Our program is advancing on every front. We have grown to over two dozen in-house engineers across all of our core disciplines, including neutronics, thermal hydraulics, fuel performance, materials, fuel assembly mechanical design, licensing, high-performance computing, and program management, and we continue to add talent. The qualification pathway ahead of us is well-defined. We expect Lightbridge Fuel will enable power uprates of up to 30% or more for new-build water-cooled reactors, meaningfully more than any other approach, while operating approximately 1,000 degrees Celsius cooler. In existing light-water reactors, Lightbridge Fuel is expected to enable power uprates of up to 20% or more (depending on balance-of-plant constraints) and to extend the fuel cycle length. In addition to creating new nuclear generating capacity, the world is seeking greater power from the infrastructure it already has. That is precisely the problem we’ve designed Lightbridge Fuel to solve.”