Uranium Plant Using Laser Technology Wins U.S. Approval.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A nuclear power partnership of General Electric and
Hitachi has received federal approval to build the first plant to
enrich uranium for use in commercial reactors using a classified laser
technology.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
issued a license to General Electric-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment
this week to build and operate a uranium enrichment plant near
Wilmington, N.C., deploying the laser technology instead of costlier
centrifuges.
The approval alarmed some advocates of nuclear weapons
control, who say they fear that allowing companies to use the cheaper
and easier technology could increase the risk of it falling into the
wrong hands.
“We think the approval of the license was done without due consideration of proliferation,” said Edwin S. Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
“We’re already grappling with how to cope with Iran’s nuclear
enrichment capability” and the laser technology “could make the problem
of global proliferation intractable and uncontrollable.”
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