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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On April 11, 2006, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran had successfully enriched uranium. This came about when Ahmadinejad announced the news in a televised address from the northeastern city of Mashhad, saying "I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have nuclear technology." Link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran's_nuclear_program |
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The gas centrifuge
is a hyper-centrifuge used to produce enriched uranium. It requires far
less energy to achieve the same separation than the older gaseous
diffusion process, which has been largely replaced.
The gas centrifuge uranium enrichment process uses a large number of
rotating cylinders in series and parallel formations. Centrifuges are
interconnected to form trains and cascades. In this process, uranium hexafluoride (UF6)
gas is placed in a cylinder and rotated at a high speed. This rotation
creates a strong centrifugal force so that the heavier gas molecules,
containing uranium-238 (U-238), move toward the outside of the cylinder
and the lighter gas molecules, containing uranium-235
(U-235), collect closer to the center. The stream that is slightly
enriched in U-235 is withdrawn and fed into the next higher stage,
while the slightly depleted stream is recycled back into the next lower
stage. Significantly more U-235 enrichment can be obtained from a
single unit gas centrifuge than from a single unit gaseous diffusion
stage.Large cascades of gas centrifuges are operated by France,
Germany, the United Kingdom, and China to produce enriched uranium both
for domestic use and for export, and by Japan for domestic use. A
demonstration gas centrifuge plant is being built at Piketon, Ohio in
the United States by USEC for operation in 2005, and a full-size plant
is planned for operation in 2010.Pakistan's
nuclear program developed the P1 and P2 centrifuges -- the first two
centrifuges that Pakistan deployed in large numbers. The P1 centrifuge
uses an aluminum rotor, and the P2 centrifuge uses a maraging steel
rotor, which is stronger, spins faster, and therefore enriches more
uranium per machine than the P1 centrifuge's aluminum rotor.Recently
Iran
enriched uranium to 4.8% using a centrifuge cascade. In 1995 Iran also
acquired drawings of the P-2 design. On 12 April 2006 President
Ahmadinejad announced that Iranian scientists were conducting research
on the P-2 centrifuges.