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Uranium Enrichment Technology

May 10th 2006 13:53
Centrifuges
Well, it looks that everybody will have its enriched uranium. Getting enriched uranium isn’t as easy as it sounds; the Navy Technological Center from Brazil had to spend US$48.5 million to develop this technology. The process of getting enriched uranium is based on the use of ultracentrifuges which are high-speeding rotating devices that separate particles according to their molecular weights. The process separates uranium 235 from uranium 238. The uranium 235 is fissionable.


Brazil’s uranium reserves are the sixth largest in the world and with the development of this technology Brazil becomes one of the seven countries that have mastered the technology of producing enriched uranium.

To achieve self sufficiency in uranium enrichment by 2016, Brazil will have to invest US$267 million.

There are ten countries using this technology:

Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Japan, United States, Russia, China, Pakistan, and Brazil.
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