WILMINGTON, North Carolina — Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is pleased to announce the completion of a large-scale enrichment demonstration testing campaign at its Test Loop facility in Wilmington, North Carolina. GLE has collected extensive performance data providing confidence that its laser-based uranium enrichment process can be commercially deployed. GLE will continue its demonstration program through the course of calendar year 2025, producing hundreds of kilograms of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU), while continuing toward building a domestic manufacturing base and supply chain to support deployment of U.S. domestic enrichment capacity.
GLE CEO Stephen Long stated:
“We believe the enrichment activities conducted over the past five months position GLE to be the next American uranium enrichment solution. Twenty percent of U.S. electricity supply comes from nuclear energy, and GLE is expected to allow America to end its dangerous dependency on a fragile, foreign government-owned uranium fuel supply chain.”
GLE’s commercial deployment is backed by over $550 million in engineering, design, manufacturing, and licensing investments to date across North Carolina and Kentucky. The planned Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility (PLEF) in Kentucky is the only planned new enrichment facility currently under license application review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The PLEF, once licensed, is expected to re-enrich over 200,000 metric tons of high-assay depleted uranium tails acquired from the U.S. Department of Energy and produce up to 6 million separative work units of LEU annually, delivering a domestic, single-site solution for uranium, conversion and enrichment.
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