Riches in Enrichment  

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Fahey, Jonathan

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Forbes Asia vol. 5 no. 17 (Nov. 2009), page 32-34.
Topik: General Electric (GE); Business Venture; Nuclear Reactor Fuel; Laser Technology; Uranium

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GE is trying to blast into the business of making nuclear reactor fuel with lasers. General Electric builds new nuclear plants, fixes broken ones and makes old ones generate more power. It packages reactor fuel into bundles for nuke operators. There is one lucrative stop on the nuclear fuel train where GE doesn't collect a toll, though: enriching uranium into nuclear fuel. GE has now decided it wants into the enrichment business and is doing so with an unproved but potentially disruptive technology. It is a highly classified system of using lasers to extract fissile uranium more cheaply and efficiently than methods used today. Uranium is enriched now mostly with arrays of thousands of centrifuges, a mechanical and relatively simple technique even rogue states are able to copy. The laser technology can, if you believe its fans, produce reactor fuel using considerably less factory space and energy than centrifuge enrichment.

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