Talk:Gas centrifuge

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Just a note to people who maintain these pages.. CNN was recently referencing the P1 and P2 centrifuges, and searching for "P1 Centrifuge" or "P2 Centrifuge" does not lead you here, which is the only place I found any information on what it was they were talking about.

Thanks for the input. I've created "redirect" pages from those names to here, to help future readers find this article. Cheers, -Will Beback 21:49, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Top vs. Bottom, wall vs. center

The picture and text do not make any sense. The NRC URL says that heavier (that would be U-238, depleted) uranium is drawn to the wall of the centrifuge, and lighter stuff is in the middle. The picture, on the other hand, indicates that heavier uranium is drawn to the bottom of the centrifuge, and lighter is drawn to the top (as does the text, which states that gravity achieves the separation.) I think NRC URL text is correct, and think that the picture should be corrected.

in any event, the text at the bottom of the article says that heavier uranium is drawn from the top of the centrifuge, which is definitely wrong, and that lighter uranium is drawn from the bottom of the centrifuge, which also must be incorrect. I've been wondering how this process works as Iran today stated it had put 1000 new centrifuges to work. SystemBuilder (talk) 19:26, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hyper?

In the first sentence, does "hyper-" in "hyper-centrifuge" actually have any meaning? Kaleja 21:10, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

I can't find anything on the Internet that tells me what that is. --Gbleem 14:06, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pakistan and Irak centrifuges

There is some interesting information on centrifuge types in an 15 years old Atomic Scientist article: [1] The article mentions:

  • Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland (UCN),
  • Urenco consortium
    • G-1 centrifuge, between 2 and 3 separative work units per year
    • G-2, 5 to 6 separative work units

It is believed that most of Pakistan's centrifuges are based on the G-2 design. -- Petri Krohn 11:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

There is no history of this technology. pleas add