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Nuclear and Hydro Power
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Energy Security for The 21st Century, 2021
Purified, pure uranium, metal (not UO2) can be enriched into the isotope U-235, by combining the pure uranium metal with fluorine to form uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6). The gas is then processed via gaseous diffusion, or through a gas centrifuge, where it undergoes isotope separation. This process produces low-enriched uranium containing up to 20% U-235, or the type used in most large civilian electric-power reactors.
The Other Energy Markets
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Global Energy Market Trends, 2021
Purified, pure uranium, metal (not UO2) can be enriched into the isotope U-235, by combining the pure uranium metal with fluorine to form uranium hexafuoride gas (UF6). The gas is then processed via gaseous diffusion, or through a gas centrifuge, where it undergoes isotope separation. This process produces low-enriched uranium containing up to 20% U-235, or the type used in most large civilian electric-power generating nuclear reactors.
The Other Energy Sources
Published in Anco S. Blazev, Power Generation and the Environment, 2021
Purified pure uranium metal (not UO2) can be enriched in the isotope U-235, by combining the pure uranium metal with fluorine to form uranium hexafluoride gas (UF6). The gas is then processed via gaseous diffusion, or through a gas centrifuge, where it undergoes isotope separation. This process produces low-enriched uranium containing up to 20% U-235, or the type used in most large civilian electric-power reactors.
Calcium isotope separation by band chromatography using 18-crown-6-ether resin
Published in Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2018
Saori Umehara, Masao Nomura, Yasuhiko Fujii, Shin Okumura, Toyohiko Yano, Tadafumi Kishimoto
Enrichment of calcium isotopes is, in general, very difficult. Several isotope enrichment processes have been developed in the field of the nuclear engineering, such as gaseous diffusion, gas centrifuge, thermal diffusion etc. for the uranium enrichment. However, these processes are not applicable for calcium isotope separation, because there is no appropriate gaseous compound of calcium applicable to the calcium isotope enrichment.