Ann: ZS-Si Project Completes Construction of Pilot Facility, page-3

Well what a wonderful start to the day. A couple of lines that caught my attention below

" • The construction of a pilot demonstration facility in the Zero-Spin Silicon (ZS-Si)project has been completed – a key milestone in the third and final stage of the project.

As part of this milestone, a pilot-scale process reactor and associated gas handling system were constructed. The integration of these sub-systems into the pilot demonstration facility at the Company’s Lucas Heights laboratories represents the first time the technology has been scaled-up to pilot production level.

We look forward to conducting testing with the pilot demonstration facility over the coming months and to undertaking initial production tests of ZS-Si by the end of 2022,” he said. The importance of this project to the emerging silicon quantum computing industry cannot be overstated, with the unfolding global disruption to the main source of highly enriched silicon - being Russian centrifuge production.”

The project remains on track to achieve its objectives of utilising the SILEX LIS technology to produce highly enriched silicon in the form of ZS-Si, and to establish the manufacturing technology and capability to scale-up production as silicon-based quantum computing gains traction globally over the next decade."