The Power to End a War: The History of the Calutron; YGG 05-0181R1

Edité par Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, TN, 2005

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This is a brochure. It is a single oversized sheet with four panels per side. There is text on all eight panels and illustrations on seven of the panels with the Y-12 logo on the eighth panel. A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest O. Lawrence during the Manhattan Project and was based on his earlier invention, the cyclotron. Its name was derived from California University Cyclotron, in tribute to Lawrence's institution, the University of California, where it was invented. Calutrons were used in the industrial-scale Y-12 uranium enrichment plant at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The uranium-235 produced there was used in the Little Boy atomic bomb that was detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. During World War II, calutrons were developed to obtain substantial quantities of high-purity uranium-235, by taking advantage of the small mass difference between uranium isotopes. Electromagnetic separation for uranium enrichment was abandoned in the post-war period in favor of the more complicated, but more efficient, gaseous diffusion method. Although most of the calutrons of the Manhattan Project were dismantled at the end of the war, some remained in use to produce isotopically enriched samples of naturally occurring elements for military, scientific and medical purposes. Brochure. This is a single, over-sized sheet with four panels per side.

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Titre
The Power to End a War: The History of the Calutron; YGG 05-0181R1
Auteur
Y-12 National Security Complex
Éditeur
Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, TN
Année de publication
2005
État de l'article
Very good
Édition
May be a revised version.

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