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LIS Technologies Inc., a proprietary developer of advanced laser technology and the only USA-origin and patented laser uranium enrichment company, has announced that it has convened a panel of independent reviewers to perform a Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) of the CRISLA-3G technology at the LIST facility in Oak Ridge.

Conducted over three days during the week of March 10, the CRISLA-3G laser isotope separation technology was evaluated and determined to meet all elements required for TRL-4, conforming to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) guide DOE G 413.3-4A. It shows that all critical components were successfully validated in a laboratory environment, supported by experimental results from the integrated system.

The TRA Team leveraged a well-established TRA process developed and implemented by the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM). Each Critical Technology Element (CTE) was assessed against TRL-4, TRL-5, and TRL-6 calculator elements, which address technical, manufacturing, and programmatic factors. The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a technology maturity system ranging from TRL-1 (basic principles observed and reported) to TRL-9 (actual system operated over the full range of expected conditions). The TRL rating system was developed by NASA and the Department of Defense to evaluate the deployment readiness of a given technology and has been adopted by agencies across the federal government.

“We are very pleased that the independent Technology Readiness Assessment team scored our TRL at 4, meeting 27 out of 27 criteria,” said Christo Liebenberg, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LIS Technologies. “Also identified were the critical technical elements (CTE’s) to progress through TRL5, 6 and 7 in the coming years. We have high confidence that we can meet all these CTEs in our roadmap to commercialization.”

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