- 864
Alpha calutrons,
arranged in nine
racetracks of 96.
There were only 36
calutrons in each Beta racetrack, for a
total of 288
calutrons,
although only...
-
house 1,152
calutrons, a
machine used for
isotope separation. The word "
calutron" is a
portmanteau of
California University Cyclotron.
Calutrons, a variation...
-
isotope separation at the
Radiation Laboratory. It used
devices known as
calutrons, a
hybrid of the
standard laboratory m****
spectrometer and cyclotron....
- 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...
-
product of
which was
around 23% 235U. Finally, this
material was fed into
calutrons at the Y-12.
These machines (a type of m**** spectrometer) emplo**** electromagnetic...
-
Calutron operators at the Y-12
Plant in Oak
Ridge during the
Manhattan Project...
-
respective collection targets. A production-scale m****
spectrometer named the
Calutron was
developed during World War II that
provided some of the 235U used for...
- 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...
- 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...
- to
manage Y-12. The
calutrons were
turned over to
trained Tennessee Eastman operators known as the
Calutron Girls. The
calutrons initially enriched the...
