Gaseous diffusion
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Gaseous diffusion is a technology that was used to produce enriched uranium by forcing gaseous uranium hexafluoride through microporous membranes. This produces a slight separation between the molecul
Gaseous diffusion uses microporous membranes to enrich uranium
Gas centrifuge
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A gas centrifuge is a device that performs isotope separation of gases. A centrifuge relies on the principles of centrifugal force accelerating molecules so that particles of different masses are phys
Gaseous diffusion
…of producing enriched uranium in industrially useful quantities, but is nowadays considered obsolete, having been superseded by the more-efficient gas centrifuge process (enrichment factor 1.05 to 1.2). Gaseous diffusion was devised by Francis Simon and Nicholas Kurti at the Clarendon Laboratory in 1940, tasked…
Cascade of gas centrifuges used to produce enriched uranium. U.S. gas centrifuge testbed in Piketon, Ohio, 1984. Each centrifuge is some 40 feet (12 m) tall. (Conventional centrifuges in use today are much smaller, less than 5 metres (16 ft) high.)