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Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel

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Experts worry that uranium-enrichment technique could be used to make bombs.

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Weinberger, S. Laser plant offers cheap way to make nuclear fuel. Nature 487, 16–17 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/487016a

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