Uranium Enrichment and Gas Centrifuge Technology
Uranium Production
Detailed disucssion on types of enrichment techniques, production of feedstock for enrichment plants and enrichment activity detection.
The most efficient current enrichment method is the gas centrifuge. This section considers the fundamental physical principles and the main engineering challenges of centrifuges and describes how they work and are built. It covers the theory of isotope separation, both by individual machines and in cascades of many machines. The section includes some example calculations and interactive calculators of centrifuge and cascade performance. Finally, the connection between commercial uranium enrichment and nuclear proliferation is described. |