Sentence examples for gaseous diffusion from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, gaseous diffusion was used.

The United States uses gaseous diffusion.

The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant began enriching uranium fuel in 1952.

The Government plants use a process known as gaseous diffusion; younger competitors abroad use centrifuges.

A third cold-war-era gaseous diffusion plant, at Oak Ridge, Tenn., was shut by the government in 1985.

The degree of enrichment per stage in a centrifuge is greater than that obtained in a gaseous diffusion chamber, and the process uses less energy than gaseous diffusion does, but centrifuges are more expensive pieces of equipment.

Gaseous diffusion uses about 20 times the electricity as centrifuges, the technology that supplanted it.

Gaseous diffusion is still the principal method for obtaining uranium-235.

Gaseous centrifugation is a cheaper way to produce enriched uranium than gaseous diffusion, the method still used by Areva and USEC.

In World War II, Dr. Turkevich worked for the Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bomb, studying gaseous diffusion and measurements of radioactive fallout.

The technology used at both plants, gaseous diffusion, was developed during World War II, to make the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.