“We have deliberately designed our advanced reactor to run on LEU, low-enriched uranium, that does not require HALU”

Macro Voices · MacroVoices #554 Yasir Arafat: Mass Manufacturing Nuclear Power Plants

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Designed advanced reactor to run on low-enriched uranium (5-8% U-235) instead of HALU

5%-8% enrichment

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