Antinuclear

 progress hinges on a world-leading uranium processing method called laser enrichment.

The technology has been acquired by a heavy-hitting US consortium of nuclear companies, Global Laser Enrichment, which has completed a testing program.

(repeating this item, lest we forget Australia’s involvement – C.M.)

Heavy weather for nation’s solitary solar-panel maker, The Australian, TIM BOREHAM , July 18, 2011 AS the head of Australia’s only solar-panel maker, Silex Systems’ Michael Goldsworthy sticks to script and welcomes the pending carbon tax and accompanying billion-dollar renewable subsidy programs that will benefit companies such as Silex…..

Selling technology is one thing, leveraging the know-how to create an export sector is another another..At Bridgewater north of Melbourne, it is the precursor of a full-scale 100MW plant, enough to power 40,000 houses, at sunny Mildura.

The next step is to export the technology but ensure local control of the know-how.

One location of interest is Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, which is predicated on massive solar capacity(17GW-18GW)being built in the next 10 years….

Despite all this solar potential, progress hinges on a world-leading uranium processing method called laser enrichment.

The technology has been acquired by a heavy-hitting US consortium of nuclear companies, Global Laser Enrichment, which has completed a testing program.

GLE is waiting for assent from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a commercial plant at Wilmington in North Carolina.

GLE has been already granted environmental approval, with NRC safety approval subject to a 30-month review period, which expires in December.

Southern Cross Equities noted recently that the consortium had established an engineering and manufacturing facility dedicated to the Silex technology at Oak Ridge in Tennessee….

“We are a unique clean-energy company,” Goldsworthy says.–