; (ii) to continue supplying HALEU to meet the needs of the recipients of an award made pursuant to the funding opportunity announcement of the Department numbered DE–FOA–0002271 for Pathway 1, Advanced Reactor Demonstrations; and (iii) to make HALEU available to other advanced nuclear reactor developers and other end-users. (3) Avoidance of market disruptions In carrying out the Nuclear Fuel Security Program, the Secretary, to the extent practicable and consistent with the purposes of that program, shall not disrupt or replace market mechanisms by competing with U.S. nuclear energy companies. (g) Expansion of the American Assured Fuel Supply Program The Secretary, in consultation with U.S. nuclear energy companies, shall— (1) expand the American Assured Fuel Supply Program of the Department by merging the operations of the Uranium Reserve Program of the Department with the American Assured Fuel Supply Program; and (2) in carrying out the American Assured Fuel Supply Program of the Department, as expanded under paragraph (1)— (A) maintain, replenish, diversify, or increase the quantity of uranium made available by that program in a manner determined by the Secretary to be consistent with the purposes of that program and the objectives described in subsection (c); (B) utilize only uranium produced, converted, enriched, deconverted, and reduced in— (i) the United States; or (ii) if domestic options are not practicable, a country that is an ally or partner of the United States; (C) make uranium available from the American Assured Fuel Supply, subject to terms and conditions determined by the Secretary to be reasonable and appropriate; (D) refill and expand the supply of uranium in the American Assured Fuel Supply, including by maintaining a limited reserve of uranium to address a potential event in which a domestic or foreign recipient of uranium experiences a supply disruption for which uranium cannot be obtained through normal market mechanisms or under normal market conditions