Abstract
The potential commercialization of a laser Isotope separation process for uranium enrichment generates the challenge and opportunity for realistically analyzing other similar applications of the technology, which may or may not be profitable. For example, from a scientific point of view, laser photochemistry would seem to provide many commercially viable opportunities for application, but engineering and economic factors significantly pare down that potential. One would like to have available an appropriate methodology for analysis that would help one to focus on the relevant process phenomenology, technology, and economic issues at the appropriate scale, thereby identifying those applications likely to emerge as realistic candidates for commercialization.
© 1981 Optical Society of America
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