by Charles Barton
During
World War II the United States spent a large amount of money on
developing nuclear technology. Much of that investment went into
industrial systems designed to separate U-235 from U-238, or to
transform U-238 into Pu-239. Here such systems were built in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, My childhood hometown. The Uranium separation technologies
were gaseous diffusion, thermal diffusion and electromagnetic
separation. In addition, Plutonium was produced in the Graphite
Reactor. Of the 4 technologies, thermal diffusion was the least successful.
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