The Poet as Scientist: Are there any current, plausible approaches to reducing the costs of nuclear enrichment?

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[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

Are there any current, plausible approaches to reducing the costs of nuclear enrichment?

I think one of the main obstacles to the full exploitation of nuclear power is simply the costs of nuclear enrichment, whether for Uranium or Plutonium. Are there any ideas in play currently to improve this situation, so nuclear power can be a cheaper and more realistic source of power for society? Are they making any progress in this area of research at this time? Specifically, are there new techniques being developed for the extraction of U-235 from raw Uranium ore, or for creating Plutonium from U-238?

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