US conglomerate General Electric is seeking permission toward build a $1 billion plant for uranium enrichment by laser, a development which has raised proliferation fears, The New York Times said Sunday after testing the enrichment process for two years, GE have ask the US government to approve its plans for a massive ability in North Carolina that could produce reactor fuel through the ton, the report said, citing GE officials.
"We are currently optimizing the plan Christopher Monetta, president of Global Laser Enrichment, a additional operate by GE and Japan's Hitachi, said in an interview with the newspaper the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is probable to deliver its decision on whether to issue a commercial license used for the complex by next year, the report said.
Uranium enrichment can be used to produce together the fuel for a nuclear reactor and the fissile material for an atomic warhead new technologies are seen as potentially dangerous since they make it easier to build a bomb monetta said the plant might enrich enough uranium each year to fuel up to 60 large reactors – in theory, sufficient to power 42 million homes, or a third of all homes in the United States.
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