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There are no major environmental reasons why a uranium enrichment facility based on laser technology should not be constructed by Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) in Wilmington, North Carolina, the US nuclear regulator has concluded.Comment:
A bit of speculation here: could this be used for U233 as well? This post will serve as a reminder to look into the problems with U233 and whether or not its handling issues can be solved. If so, that would make setting up a Thorium cycle reactor which would breed U233 off world-- on Mars and the moon. The significance of this is that it would end the necessity of launch fuel from Earth.
Update:
After spending some time looking into this, it appears that making U233 from Thorium and using it in fuel rods is a difficult, if not totally impractical idea. But that is right up my alley. lol
I got some interesting links out of it, though.
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