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...seems, his mission accomplished. When Khan returned to his homeland, only two commercial gas centrifuge plants existed-one in Capenhurst, Britain, and the other in Almelo. The blueprints for both factories are highly classified, since the uranium produced by a gas centrifuge can be used to make nuclear weapons. Today, Khan is apparently director of Pakistan's one and only gas centrifuge plant, which is now under construction near the country's capital, Islamabad. The onetime Almelo adviser managed to carry home critical information about the gas centrifuge process needed to build such a factory, thereby enabling Pakistan...
...could be used in bombs, but no one knew which process-if either-would work better. The British, noting U.S. success, were reasonably sure of getting plutonium from their reactors, so they did not start their U-235 plant until later. The isotope plant was built at Capenhurst in Cheshire, and it uses the same process (gaseous diffusion of uranium hexafluoride) as the U.S. plant at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Its purpose is restoring U-235 to the partially depleted uranium from the reactors...
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