NRC Issues License For Laser Uranium Enrichment Plant 34
Six years after being conceived, and after three years of regulatory review, the NRC has issued the operating license for the first commercial SILEX facility. This is just the final step in the multi-year approval process. There is still, however, a chance that the tech won't make it far: concerns over proliferation (due to the much smaller waste stream vs other enrichment processes) may lead to the NRC exercising its right to mothball further commercialization of the technology. Anyone interested in the long approval process should check out the NRC licensing page.
NRC = Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Score:4, Informative)
Just in case you somehow don't know every Acronym on the planet.
It must be one of those days I was thinking National Republican Congress.