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I am looking for a nice counterexample that for a UFD $R$ and $\mathfrak p\subset R$ a prime ideal, $R/\mathfrak p$ is not always a UFD as well.

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Pick any finitely generated domain which is not a UDF and write it as a quotient of $\mathbb Z[X_1,\dots,X_n]$. The ideal will be prime.

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A good geometric example is $R=k[x,y]$ and $\mathfrak p=(y^2-x^3)$.

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