Gas centrifuge technology is the presently preferential enrichment technology for commercial use all over the world. The gas centrifuge is generally used in some European and Asian countries to separate the uranium isotopes. Also, the new enrichment plant the U.S. lately licensed will use the gas centrifuge technology. It is nearly ten times more energy efficient than gaseous diffusion technology.
In the centrifuge system, the physically powerful centrifugal field of a rotating cylinder drives the heavier isotope in UF6 to the outside of the cylinder, where it can be drawn off, while the U235 spreads to the center of the cylinder. To help the separation process, the centrifuge’s electric motor generates heat along with the base of the machine, sourcing a temperature profile along with the length of the centrifuge. The two streams are of UF6, one enriched and the other one depleted in U235, are removed from the centrifuge by two pipes. It because of limits on the mass of the centrifuge, many thousands of equal centrifuges must be connected in a series called a flow in order to produce the required amounts of enriched uranium.
In the centrifuge system, the physically powerful centrifugal field of a rotating cylinder drives the heavier isotope in UF6 to the outside of the cylinder, where it can be drawn off, while the U235 spreads to the center of the cylinder. To help the separation process, the centrifuge’s electric motor generates heat along with the base of the machine, sourcing a temperature profile along with the length of the centrifuge. The two streams are of UF6, one enriched and the other one depleted in U235, are removed from the centrifuge by two pipes. It because of limits on the mass of the centrifuge, many thousands of equal centrifuges must be connected in a series called a flow in order to produce the required amounts of enriched uranium.
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