Monday, September 19, 2022

Enrichment

A couple weeks ago World Nuclear News relayed press-information from Silex down-under.

I bring this up because recently we've learnt how long Australia is on Net Zero. Solar will be part of it (especially if beamed from orbit); but meanwhile, why not nuclear too.

"Enrichment" has a long history in isotope-processing; at first, with a uranium centrifuge. It's not literally enriching the isotopes they got. It's about separation of isotopes, so they can skim valuable U-235 from the U-238 baseline.

Note: the same process should be good for, say, Boron, to get the lower-neutron isotopes of that. You want this to soak up stray neutrons from your reaction.

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