Isotope separation using metallic vapor lasers
Abstract
The isotope U235 is separated from a gasified isotope mixture of U235 and U238 by selectively exciting the former from the ground state utilizing resonant absorption of radiation from precisely tuned lasers. The excited isotope is then selectively ionized by electron bombardment. It then is separated from the remaining isotope mixture by electromagnetic separation.
- Publication:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Report
- Pub Date:
- June 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977nasa.reptR....R
- Keywords:
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- High Temperature Gases;
- Isotope Separation;
- Metal Vapors;
- Pulsed Lasers;
- Uranium 235;
- Electromagnetic Absorption;
- Electron Bombardment;
- Gas-Metal Interactions;
- Helium;
- Patents;
- Lasers and Masers