Laser enrichment for 100,000 tons of Paducah tails

Laser enrichment for 100,000 tons of Paducah tails

DOE is talking with GE about a second laser enrichment facility to enrich nuclear tails.
the DoE has started talks with GE-Hitachi (GEH) subsidiary GLE to evaluate the possibility of building another laser enrichment plant at the Paducah site to enrich its stockpiles of high-assay depleted uranium tails. The DoE owns some 100,000 tonnes of such tails, which are stored at Paducah as well as at the shut down Portsmouth diffusion enrichment plant in Ohio.
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