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Is it easy? You have to spin the tube at 50k rpm and flow a gaseous form of uranium through it. It’s dangerous and expensive and certainly hard if you’ve never
by supperburg 5y ago
Is it easy? You have to spin the tube at 50k rpm and flow a gaseous form of uranium through it. It’s dangerous and expensive and certainly hard if you’ve never built a centrifuge before.
- sudosysgen 5y agoSure but centrifuges were going to be built to that standard anyways, they're a necessary basic technology.
- pfdietz 5y agoThe issue, as I understand it, is that even slight vibration mixes the UF6 enough to ruin things. Getting the centrifuges to rotate absolutely smoothly is difficult.
- kaba0 5y agoCompared to very finely controlled explosions to all meet in the center with high enough velocity and accuracy, it is trivial.