“Laser-based enrichment works by turning a metal… then selectively exciting it with a laser… you give it a charge… then you can move it within the field and they can then be absorbed”

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Developed a laser-based enrichment process that ionises gas-phase uranium or lithium with a laser, then separates isotopes via electric charge

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