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How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors

Via MIT Tech Review AI
Monday, Jul 27, 2026 · 2:24PM
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Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to reprocess this old ma

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