位于加州大学的洛斯阿拉莫斯科学实验室正研究一项可能革新核燃料工业的激光方法,它可能回收核处理工厂废料中的大部分铀。由该室应用光化学部用可调激光器正在进行的实验表明,用这种同位素分离技术生产的供核处理厂使用的铀每公斤约35美元, The Los Alamos Science Laboratory at the University of California is studying a laser process that could revolutionize the nuclear fuel industry that may recover most of the uranium in nuclear-processing plant wastes. Ongoing experiments carried out with tunable lasers used in the photochemical department of the room show that uranium used in nuclear processing plants produced using this isotope separation technique is approximately $ 35 per kilogram,