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...many Europeans, especially in West Germany. Prominent in this work were Professor Wilhelm Groth, of Bonn University, and Gernot Zippe, who built a gas centrifuge for the U.S.S.R. and was hired in 1958 by the AEC. Zippe returned to Germany last July and is now associated with the Degussa Co. of Frankfurt, which is manufacturing the centrifuges experimentally...
Professor Groth says that existing centrifuges require only one-tenth as much electric power as diffusion apparatus of the same capacity. The present Degussa model can be built for about $1,000. and according to Zippe, it will produce in one year about one pound of U-235. Improvements already in sight will increase this figure. Both Groth and Zippe believe that centrifuges will eventually compete economically with gaseous diffusion in making nuclear fuel, enriched in U-235, for atomic power plants...