Centrifuge: attending to the great uranium
The Kursk Nuclear Energy Plant (KNPP) in Kursk, Russia. The enrichment centrifuge is a tool used to extract uranium-235 isotope from a pattern of pure uranium. U-235 is fissile and thus helpful to generate nuclear energy and to construct nuclear weapons. Pure uranium consists of 99.3% U-238 and 0.7% U-235. Nuclear energy reactors want the…