Australia-based technology company Silex Systems has completed a “rigorous” eight-month test programme of the first module of full-scale laser enrichment technology required for US-based Global Laser Enrichment’s (GLE) commercial pilot demonstration project in Wilmington, North Carolina.
GLE is the exclusive worldwide licensee of the laser enrichment Silex technology, which Silex says is “the future of uranium enrichment”.
The technology is a unique laser-based process that has a number of advantages over other uranium enrichment processes including higher efficiency, lower costs and greater flexibility in producing advanced fuels for advanced small modular reactors.
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