The gaseous diffusion process that it used to enrich uranium yields a lot of residual nickel, which has a high value on the scrap-metal market.
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At room temperatures, has a high vapor pressure, making it useful in the gaseous diffusion process to separate the rare uranium-235 from the common uranium-238 isotope.
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After an extensive search, uranium hexafluoride, UF 6, was determined to be the most suitable compound of uranium to be used for the gaseous diffusion process.
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After the problems with the gaseous diffusion process were resolved in 1950, it was decided not to proceed with a full-scale electromagnetic plant ., it remains operational.
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During World War II he worked in the Manhattan Project's Substitute Alloy Materials ( SAM ) Laboratories at Columbia University, developing the gaseous diffusion process for uranium enrichment.
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As soon as the engineering obstacles posed by the gaseous diffusion process had been overcome and the gaseous diffusion cascades began operating at Oak Ridge in 1945, all of the calutrons were shut down.
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Gas centrifuge once was the government's top choice for replacing the 1940s-era gaseous diffusion process used at Piketon and a companion plant in Paducah, Ky . The new technology uses only a fraction of the energy.
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While nowhere near as nasty as the uranium hexafluoride used by the gaseous diffusion process, uranium tetrachloride is hygroscopic, so work with it had to be undertaken in gloveboxes that were kept dry with phosphorus pentoxide ( ).
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Oppenheimer wanted all three to proceed to Los Alamos as soon as possible, but it was decided that Oliphant would go to Berkeley to work on the electromagnetic process and Peierls would go to New York to work on the gaseous diffusion process.
