may have posted this before, if so sorry, but i didnt notice...

may have posted this before, if so sorry, but i didnt notice that gle are now definetely planned in to enrich uranium and quantities

GE referred to SILEX, which it rebadged as GLE, as "game-changing technology" with a "very high likelihood" of success. GE-Hitachi is completing the test loop program, the initial phase of which has already been successful in meeting performance criteria, and engineering design for a commercial facility has commenced. GEH is operating the GLE test loop at Global Nuclear Fuel's Wilmington, North Carolina fuel fabrication facility - GNF is a partnership of GE, Toshiba, and Hitachi.

IIn October 2007 the two largest US nuclear utilities, Exelon and Entergy, signed letters of intent to contract for uranium enrichment services from GLE. The utilities may also provide GLE with facility licensing and public acceptance support if needed for development of a commercial-scale GLE plant. In mid 2009 GEH submitted the last part of its licence application for this GLE plant, which will take the NRC 30 months to process, to December 2011. If the decision is made to proceed with construction (from early 2012), the GLE commercial production facility at Wilmington, North Carolina would have an annual capacity of 3.5 to 6 million separative work units (SWU) and be operational from 2014

World Enrichment capacity - operational and planned (thousand SWU/yr)

country company and plant 2010 2015 2020
France Areva, Georges Besse I & II 8500* 7000 7500
Germany-Netherlands-UK Urenco: Gronau, Germanu; Almelo, Netherlands; Capenhurst, UK. 12,800 12,200 12,300
Japan JNFL, Rokkaasho 150 750 1500
USA USEC, Paducah & Piketon 11,300* 3800 3800
USA Urenco, New Mexico 200 5800 5900
USA Areva, Idaho Falls 0 >1000 3300
USA Global Laser Enrichment 0 2000 3500
Russia Tenex: Angarsk, Novouralsk, Zelenogorsk, Seversk 23,000 33,000 30-35,000
China CNNC, Hanzhun & Lanzhou 1300 3000 6000-8000
Pakistan, Brazil, Iran various 100 300 300
total SWU approx 57,350 69,000 74-81,000
Requirements (WNA reference scenario) 48,890 55,400 66,535

World Enrichment capacity - operational and planned (thousand SWU/yr)

(updated 2 May 2011)

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf28.html