Enriched uranium
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Sep 19, 2026
Laser Enrichment: America's Path to Nuclear Fuel Independence
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4:21Christo LiebenbergGUEST
But you want about, for a light water reactor, you need about 5%.
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4:24Christo LiebenbergGUEST
That's LEU, low enriched uranium is LEU.
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4:28Christo LiebenbergGUEST
Enrichment level is up to 5%.
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4:31Christo LiebenbergGUEST
and but you can enrich it further if you enrich it between five and ten percent is known as leu plus and there is also this new um fuel requirement for advanced reactors and that is halo high assay low and rich uranium that is all the way to 20 or they tend to stay just below this this credit that that mass and this is so 19.75 is considered a halo fuel for advanced reactors such as small modular reactors and micro reactors.
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8:22Christo LiebenbergGUEST
It's been demonstrated in the late 80s and the early 90s.
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8:26Christo LiebenbergGUEST
It showed that it can enrich uranium in a single step.
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8:29Christo LiebenbergGUEST
It takes us from natural uranium all the way to LEU, which is up to 5% in one stage, which is huge.
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8:37Christo LiebenbergGUEST
If you compare that to centrifuges, they need energy.