A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest Lawrence during the Manhattan...
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The Calutron Girls were a group of young women—mostly high school graduates—who had joined the Manhattan Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex...
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uranium-235 from natural uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform electromagnetic isotope separation. Y-12 separated the uranium-235...
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respective collection targets. A production-scale mass spectrometer named the Calutron was developed during World War II that provided some of the 235U used for...
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electromagnetic separation methods which resulted in the invention of Calutron. Compton puts the case for plutonium before Bush and Conant. December 7:...
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isotope separation at the Radiation Laboratory. It used devices known as calutrons, a hybrid of the standard laboratory mass spectrometer and cyclotron....
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this instrument to verify the equivalence of mass and energy, E = mc2. A Calutron is a sector mass spectrometer that was used for separating the isotopes...
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uranium-238. This was done in a quite different manner from that used by the calutron that was under development by a team under Wilson's former mentor, Ernest...
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to manage Y-12. The calutrons were turned over to trained Tennessee Eastman operators known as the Calutron Girls. The calutrons initially enriched the...
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Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project...
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on loan from the United States Treasury were used in the making of the calutron magnets during World War II due to wartime shortages of copper. Aluminum...
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known as calutrons were developed by Ernest O. Lawrence and used for separating the isotopes of uranium during the Manhattan Project. Calutron mass spectrometers...
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atomic experiments, but large high-current silver wires were used in the calutron isotope separator magnets in the project. It is estimated that 16% of the...
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Oppenheimer (center) with part of a calutron at Berkeley (date unknown)...
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II in the US, 13540 tons of silver were used for the electromagnets in calutrons for enriching uranium, mainly because of the wartime shortage of copper...
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used in the first atomic bombs. Devices using his principle are named calutrons. After the war the method was largely abandoned as impractical. It had...
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Diffusion pumps used on the Calutron mass spectrometers during the Manhattan Project, visible as black cylinders in the upper half of the image...
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contributing to the project. It has been rumoured that he visited the Calutron project. He wrote that his scientific research was motivated by his desire...
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included both 1200 mm and 600 mm separators. Tarmiya was the site of the 20 calutrons used to enrich uranium to 35%, located in two buildings at the site. This...
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and were given a tour of the Y-12 National Security Complex's historic Calutrons (used to separate the uranium 235 for Little Boy, the first atomic bomb...
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product of which was around 23% 235U. Finally, this material was fed into calutrons at the Y-12. These machines (a type of mass spectrometer) employed electromagnetic...
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Thompson-Houston Amtrak, from American and track Bapes, from bathing and ape Calutron, from California University Cyclotron Citizendium, from Citizens' Compendium...
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and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations Calligraphic projection Calutron Carbon dioxide laser Carrier generation and recombination Catastrophic...
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Project on 23 September 1942. He visited Berkeley to look at Lawrence's calutrons, and met with Oppenheimer, who gave him a report on bomb design on 8 October...
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The Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where mass spectrometers called calutrons had enriched uranium for the Manhattan Project, was redesigned to make...
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to build the first atomic bomb used electromagnetic devices known as calutrons to enrich uranium. Thousands of tons of silver were borrowed from the...
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electromagnetic enrichment of uranium using their experience with cyclotrons. The calutrons (named after the University) became the basic unit of the massive Y-12...
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clone), and convince him to go to Falcon's Edge, supposedly to photograph a calutron left over from the Soviet era, over fears that Drake is trying to activate...
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1942–1993 Circular Various MeV to GeV Research on uranium isotope separation Calutrons Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, TN 1943– "Horseshoe" Uranium nuclei Used to separate...
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674.. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.69.674.2. US 2847576, Lawrence, Ernest O., "Calutron system", published 1958-08-12, assigned to US, Atomic Energy Commission ...
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