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Who produces the most Urainum?

ENRICHMENT

A number of enrichment processes have been demonstrated in the laboratory but only two, the gaseous diffusion process and the centrifuge process, are operating on a commercial scale. In both of these, UF₆ gas is used as the feed material. Molecules of UF₆ with U-235 atoms are about one percent lighter than the rest, and this difference in mass is the basis of both processes.

Large commercial enrichment plants are in operation in France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, USA, and Russia, with smaller plants elsewhere. New centrifuge plants are being built in France and USA.

Country	method	capacity in 2002 x 1000 kg SWU/yr
France	diffusion	10,800
Germany-Netherlands-UK - Urenco	centrifuge	5,850
Japan	centrifuge	900
USA	diffusion	8,000
Russia	centrifuge	20,000
China	mostly centrifuge	1,000
Pakistan	centrifuge	5
total		46,500 approx

Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre

Posted Nov 18, 2005

Did we use incendiary weapons against civilians in Fallujah?

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (then part of the Soviet Union), now in Ukraine.

It is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history and the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. It resulted in a severe release of radioactivity following a massive power excursion that destroyed the reactor. Most fatalities from the accident were caused by radiation poisoning.