Global Laser Enrichment announced in September 2025 that its SILEX laser-based uranium enrichment technology reached industrial scale, moving from concept toward commercial deployment. The technology promises to address growing uranium demand and reduce dependence on geopolitically sensitive suppliers, but poses significant nonproliferation challenges that require urgent policy adaptation of export controls and IAEA safeguards before widespread deployment undermines the global nonproliferation regime.
Albert Einstein warns President Roosevelt that uranium nuclear chain reactions could produce vast energy and powerful bombs, and recommends the U.S. government maintain contact with physicists working on this research and secure uranium supplies, noting Germany has already halted uranium exports from Czechoslovakia.