• @essell
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    77 months ago

    Is enrichment turning one isotope into another or when you separate out the different isotopes?

    I know Iran has centrifuge technology for this became Mossad sabotaged them a while back.

    • @[email protected]
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      137 months ago

      Enrichment is sorting. Breeding is isotope conversion and done in a reactor. (Fast breeding reactor)

    • @Madison420
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      87 months ago

      That wasn’t mossad, that was stuxnet from the US. It caused the centrifuges to over speed and break often with associated injury.

      People hear centrifuges and they think those little table top deals you messed with in chemistry class. These are not those, these are high speed multiple story structures.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge

      https://youtu.be/JNT28WKAxgs?si=ir5xKdsWYMW2_kWx

      I’ll try to find the video but floating around out there somewhere there’s a video of one of the centrifuges overspeeding and essentially exploding.