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- noun physics A form of
mass spectrometer used to separate theisotopes ofuranium .
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Examples
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It is not surprising that the device used at Oak Ridge was called a "calutron" — after California — and that its inventor, Ernest Lawrence from Berkeley, also was the inventor of the cyclotron.
What Happened at Oak Ridge Palter, Robert 2006
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The calutron program had advanced significantly beyond the centrifuge efforts.
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The calutron program had advanced significantly beyond the centrifuge efforts.
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Three people added that they believed Iraq was also operating a secret calutron plant (a facility for separating uranium isotopes).
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Three people added that they believed Iraq was also operating a secret calutron plant (a facility for separating uranium isotopes).
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The international community has acknowledged the existence of an Iraqi calutron program for more than ten years, and the progress of this program was detailed by an Iraqi defector named Khidhir Hamza, who, at one time, was the head of Iraq's nuclear weaponization program.
Archive 2002-12-01 2002
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The international community has acknowledged the existence of an Iraqi calutron program for more than ten years, and the progress of this program was detailed by an Iraqi defector named Khidhir Hamza, who, at one time, was the head of Iraq's nuclear weaponization program.
Exultate Justi 2002
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Along with their efforts to obtain Plutonium through the French-built Osiraq fission reactor, Iraq would use the calutron electromagnetic isotope separation EMIS process to produce the highly enriched uranium it would need for its weapons.
Archive 2002-12-01 2002
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Manhattan Project 's atomic experiments, but large high current silver wires were used in the calutron isotope separator magnets in the project.
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In it, process tanks with calutron units alternate with magnetic windings made of silver.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
MRBOGGLE commented on the word calutron
"a device that uses large electromagnets to separate uranium isotopes from uranium ore. It was developed in the 1940s to produce highly enriched weapons-grade uranium."
June 9, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word calutron
"One American defense consultant told me that as yet there is "no smoking calutron," although, like many Western government officials, he is convinced that Iran is intent on becoming a nuclear state sometime in the future."
-"Iran and the Bomb" by Seymour M. Hersh, in the June 6, 2011 issue of the New Yorker, p 30
June 6, 2011