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Vacation: Week of July 27

Stratechery is on vacation the week of July 27. There will be no Weekly Article or Updates. The next Update will be on Monday, August 3. Sharp Tech, and Greatest of All Talk will also return the week of August 3. Sharp China and Asianometry will continue to publish, and there will be one episode of Dithering next week. The […]

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How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors

Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to reprocess this old material with a new technology called laser…

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Technology

The Download: lasers for nuclear fuel, and organ preservation advances

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today, and that fraction could tick up as countries look to build new reactors.…

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