Word: capenhurst
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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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