Sentences with phrase «separate uranium isotopes»

1942 Sept 13The S - 1 Executive Committee recommends building a pilot plant based on Ernest O. Lawrence's cyclotrons to separate uranium isotopes in Tennessee.

Achieving that longer lead time requires blocking Iran's four routes to nuclear weapons: through its Natanz and Fordow uranium enrichment facilities, where thousands of centrifuges separate uranium isotopes; through plutonium production at the Arak heavy water reactor, which Iran says is needed to produce medical radioisotopes; and by way of a covert path involving undisclosed facilities.

Not exact matches

A uranium enrichment process using uranium hexafluoride, which is heated to a gas and passed repeatedly through porous barriers to separate U235 and U238 isotopes.