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Manhattan Project History
Early Government Support
Isotope Separation - Centrifuge Method
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Jesse W. Beams - University of Virginia |
Many scientists initially thought that the best hope for uranium isotope separation was the high-speed centrifuge, a device based on the same principle as the dairy cream separator. Centrifugal force in a cylinder spinning rapidly on its vertical axis would separate a gaseous mixture of two isotopes since the lighter U235 isotope would be less affected by the action and could be drawn off at the top center of the cylinder. A cascade system composed of thousands of centrifuges could produce a rich mixture. Jesse W. Beams of the University of Virginia pioneered this method and received much of the early funding. This method was later abandoned before being introduced on an industrial scale. |
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