{"id":107225,"date":"2026-07-27T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youzum.net\/how-lasers-could-help-provide-fuel-for-nuclear-reactors\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:48:36","slug":"how-lasers-could-help-provide-fuel-for-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youzum.net\/th\/how-lasers-could-help-provide-fuel-for-nuclear-reactors\/","title":{"rendered":"How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-chronoton-summary=\"&lt;ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lasers as a uranium processor:&lt;\/strong&gt; A company called Global Laser Enrichment wants to use laser technology to revive thousands of cylinders of uranium-containing waste sitting outside Paducah, Kentucky\u2014essentially treating old nuclear leftovers as an aboveground mine.&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why lasers beat spinning:&lt;\/strong&gt; Unlike centrifuges, which require thousands of units working in tandem, laser enrichment can do the same job with far fewer machines, using less energy in the process.&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Russia's war opened a door:&lt;\/strong&gt; Western bans on Russian uranium following the Ukraine invasion created a sudden gap in global supply, giving laser enrichment startups a rare commercial opening that didn't exist just a few years ago.&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Still unproven at scale:&lt;\/strong&gt; GLE only recently finished processing a few hundred kilograms in a pilot test, with full commercial operation not expected until 2030.&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;\/ul&gt;\" data-chronoton-post-id=\"1140798\" data-chronoton-expand-collapse=\"1\" data-chronoton-analytics-enabled=\"1\"><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to reprocess this old material with a new technology called laser enrichment. It could be more efficient than conventional enrichment methods, allowing the company to refresh the material and produce feedstock at the same concentration as a natural mined source. And in the future, the company claims, laser enrichment could be used to make material for nuclear fuel, including the kind used in advanced reactors.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today, and that fraction could tick up as major world powers like the US and China look to build new reactors, including some based on next-generation technology. New, cheaper methods to obtain fuel could help ensure that those nuclear projects stay on track.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally occurring uranium is largely made up of uranium-238 (over 99%) and uranium-235 (about 0.7%). Uranium-235 is the fissile type, meaning that, when hit with slow low-energy neutrons, it can sustain a chain reaction that generates electricity. So reactors generally use material with a higher concentration of U-235 than what\u2019s pulled from the ground. Today\u2019s conventional reactors usually use low-enriched uranium, typically is about 5% U-235, though some advanced reactor designs will use fuel that\u2019s up to 20% U-235.<\/p>\n<p>Today, centrifuges are the dominant tech used to enrich uranium. The equipment essentially takes uranium-containing material and spins it around incredibly quickly, so the heavier material (which contains U-238) spins out to the edge, while the lighter material (which has U-235) stays closer to the center. (If you\u2019ve ever swung a mustard bottle to get the last of it out, you\u2019ve used the same basic idea behind a centrifuge.) Then the material that has a higher concentration of U-235 can go on to be made into nuclear fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Laser enrichment, on the other hand, takes advantage of the fact that all molecules vibrate and rotate at an atomic scale in ways that depend on their specific material. Even different uranium isotopes have distinct fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p>Lasers are so precise they can target one particular material (like molecules that contain U-235, for example). If you shine a laser at a mixture, you can selectively excite just the material you\u2019re targeting, giving it a bit more energy. This changes the way it behaves, which can make it easier to separate out the material you want using chemical or physical methods.<\/p>\n<p>A wide range of separation approaches have been developed in research and industry. Some aim to electrically charge U-235 atoms, allowing them to be moved with electrostatic or magnetic fields. Others change how the material reacts chemically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The details of GLE\u2019s specific technology are classified, and company officials declined to share how the process works.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been interest in using lasers for uranium enrichment for decades, says Charles Forsberg, a principal research scientist in nuclear science and engineering at MIT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, in their early days lasers tended to be high-maintenance, unstable and difficult to operate. They\u2019ve improved dramatically, making laser enrichment a more attractive prospect than it was during the early research.<\/p>\n<p>Even more than technological improvements, a recent geopolitical shift could boost new enrichment technology. Russia has the largest uranium enrichment ecosystem in the world, and the country has historically dominated the market. \u201cNobody in the West was going to build a new enrichment plant while the Russians flooded the world with enriched uranium,\u201d says Forsberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the Ukraine war, however, countries including the US and UK have taken steps to limit or ban imports of Russian uranium. That\u2019s opened the door for companies to set up new enrichment operations, including some that use new technologies, Forsberg says.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for fuel is increasing as countries look beyond Russia for uranium supply. \u201cThe gap is just becoming bigger and bigger, and this technology is right in the middle,\u201d says Christo Liebenberg, president of LIS Technologies, one of the companies aiming to build laser enrichment capacity in the US.<\/p>\n<p>LIS Technologies was founded in 2023, and the company recently purchased a 200-acre site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It\u2019s currently in the pre-application process with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its facility. The company plans to take in natural-grade uranium and make a product that\u2019s roughly 5% U-235, though it hopes to eventually make more concentrated material that can be used as fuel for next-generation reactors.<\/p>\n<p>GLE is taking a different approach: Rather than using its technology to enrich freshly mined material to the 5% concentration that can be used in fuels, it\u2019s hoping to start by rehabilitating old waste.<\/p>\n<p>The company has a contract with the US Department of Energy to reprocess waste material at the enrichment site in Paducah. The facility could enrich up to 200,000 metric tons of material that contains small amounts of uranium leftover from an older enrichment process.<\/p>\n<p>GLE is taking the material that\u2019s at least 0.25% U-235 and enriching it to about 0.7%. That material can then be further processed and slotted into the uranium supply chain in place of freshly mined material. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a large aboveground uranium mine for us,\u201d says Nima Ashkeboussi, vice president of government relations and communications at GLE.<\/p>\n<p>While each one of its units is more complex and expensive than a centrifuge, far fewer are needed to do the same work. A similar centrifugation plant would have many thousands of centrifuges working together, but a full-scale plant using GLE\u2019s laser enrichment process would have fewer than a thousand of its units, says Stephen Long, the company\u2019s CEO. Up-front investment should be smaller, and operating costs are also expected to be lower, partly because the process uses less energy than centrifuges, Long says.<\/p>\n<p>GLE has a testing facility in Wilmington, North Carolina. In fall 2025, the company completed a demonstration pilot, processing several hundred kilograms of uranium. It decommissioned that system and is currently putting together a new demonstration at the North Carolina plant, which would show how the technology works at commercial scale.<\/p>\n<p>The company also applied for a license with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its proposed facility in Paducah. The final safety evaluation should be finished in November, and the final approval should come in 2027, Long says. The plan is to start processing material at the plant by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run, there\u2019s plenty of uranium on the planet to keep reactors running for decades. But as interest in nuclear power grows and the geopolitics of fuel shift, there could be short-term gaps or price spikes that alternative sources could help smooth out.<\/p>\n<p>Laser enrichment plants could turn out to be cheaper than existing technologies, says Stephen Greene, a senior fellow at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance. But as with most new technologies, \u201cyou don\u2019t really know until you try to build one.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 material with a new technology called laser enrichment. It could be more efficient than conventional enrichment methods, allowing the company to refresh the material and produce feedstock at the same concentration as a natural mined source. And in the future, the company claims, laser enrichment could be used to make material for nuclear fuel, including the kind used in advanced reactors. Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today, and that fraction could tick up as major world powers like the US and China look to build new reactors, including some based on next-generation technology. New, cheaper methods to obtain fuel could help ensure that those nuclear projects stay on track. Naturally occurring uranium is largely made up of uranium-238 (over 99%) and uranium-235 (about 0.7%). Uranium-235 is the fissile type, meaning that, when hit with slow low-energy neutrons, it can sustain a chain reaction that generates electricity. So reactors generally use material with a higher concentration of U-235 than what\u2019s pulled from the ground. Today\u2019s conventional reactors usually use low-enriched uranium, typically is about 5% U-235, though some advanced reactor designs will use fuel that\u2019s up to 20% U-235. Today, centrifuges are the dominant tech used to enrich uranium. The equipment essentially takes uranium-containing material and spins it around incredibly quickly, so the heavier material (which contains U-238) spins out to the edge, while the lighter material (which has U-235) stays closer to the center. (If you\u2019ve ever swung a mustard bottle to get the last of it out, you\u2019ve used the same basic idea behind a centrifuge.) Then the material that has a higher concentration of U-235 can go on to be made into nuclear fuel. Laser enrichment, on the other hand, takes advantage of the fact that all molecules vibrate and rotate at an atomic scale in ways that depend on their specific material. Even different uranium isotopes have distinct fingerprints. Lasers are so precise they can target one particular material (like molecules that contain U-235, for example). If you shine a laser at a mixture, you can selectively excite just the material you\u2019re targeting, giving it a bit more energy. This changes the way it behaves, which can make it easier to separate out the material you want using chemical or physical methods. A wide range of separation approaches have been developed in research and industry. Some aim to electrically charge U-235 atoms, allowing them to be moved with electrostatic or magnetic fields. Others change how the material reacts chemically.\u00a0 The details of GLE\u2019s specific technology are classified, and company officials declined to share how the process works.\u00a0 There\u2019s been interest in using lasers for uranium enrichment for decades, says Charles Forsberg, a principal research scientist in nuclear science and engineering at MIT.\u00a0 However, in their early days lasers tended to be high-maintenance, unstable and difficult to operate. They\u2019ve improved dramatically, making laser enrichment a more attractive prospect than it was during the early research. Even more than technological improvements, a recent geopolitical shift could boost new enrichment technology. Russia has the largest uranium enrichment ecosystem in the world, and the country has historically dominated the market. \u201cNobody in the West was going to build a new enrichment plant while the Russians flooded the world with enriched uranium,\u201d says Forsberg.\u00a0 Since the start of the Ukraine war, however, countries including the US and UK have taken steps to limit or ban imports of Russian uranium. That\u2019s opened the door for companies to set up new enrichment operations, including some that use new technologies, Forsberg says. Demand for fuel is increasing as countries look beyond Russia for uranium supply. \u201cThe gap is just becoming bigger and bigger, and this technology is right in the middle,\u201d says Christo Liebenberg, president of LIS Technologies, one of the companies aiming to build laser enrichment capacity in the US. LIS Technologies was founded in 2023, and the company recently purchased a 200-acre site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It\u2019s currently in the pre-application process with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its facility. The company plans to take in natural-grade uranium and make a product that\u2019s roughly 5% U-235, though it hopes to eventually make more concentrated material that can be used as fuel for next-generation reactors. GLE is taking a different approach: Rather than using its technology to enrich freshly mined material to the 5% concentration that can be used in fuels, it\u2019s hoping to start by rehabilitating old waste. The company has a contract with the US Department of Energy to reprocess waste material at the enrichment site in Paducah. The facility could enrich up to 200,000 metric tons of material that contains small amounts of uranium leftover from an older enrichment process. GLE is taking the material that\u2019s at least 0.25% U-235 and enriching it to about 0.7%. That material can then be further processed and slotted into the uranium supply chain in place of freshly mined material. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like a large aboveground uranium mine for us,\u201d says Nima Ashkeboussi, vice president of government relations and communications at GLE. While each one of its units is more complex and expensive than a centrifuge, far fewer are needed to do the same work. A similar centrifugation plant would have many thousands of centrifuges working together, but a full-scale plant using GLE\u2019s laser enrichment process would have fewer than a thousand of its units, says Stephen Long, the company\u2019s CEO. Up-front investment should be smaller, and operating costs are also expected to be lower, partly because the process uses less energy than centrifuges, Long says. GLE has a testing facility in Wilmington, North Carolina. In fall 2025, the company completed a demonstration pilot, processing several hundred kilograms of uranium.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,5,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-club","category-committee","category-news","category-uncategorized","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - 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