A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest Lawrence during the Manhattan...

The Calutron Girls were a group of young women—mostly high school graduates—who had joined the Manhattan Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex...

to manage Y-12. The calutrons were turned over to trained Tennessee Eastman operators known as the Calutron Girls. The calutrons initially enriched the...

respective collection targets. A production-scale mass spectrometer named the calutron was developed during World War II that provided some of the 235U used for...

atomic experiments, but large high-current silver wires were used in the calutron isotope separator magnets in the project. It is estimated that 16% of the...

electromagnetic separation methods which resulted in the invention of Calutron. Compton puts the case for plutonium before Bush and Conant. December 7:...

isotope separation at the Radiation Laboratory. It used devices known as calutrons, a hybrid of the standard laboratory mass spectrometer and cyclotron....

uranium-235 from natural uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform electromagnetic isotope separation. Y-12 separated the uranium-235...

Calutron operators at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project...

uranium-238. This was done in a quite different manner from that used by the calutron that was under development by a team under Wilson's former mentor, Ernest...

II in the US, 13540 tons of silver were used for the electromagnets in calutrons for enriching uranium, mainly because of the wartime shortage of copper...

used in the first atomic bombs. Devices using his principle are named calutrons. After the war the method was largely abandoned as impractical. It had...

this instrument to verify the equivalence of mass and energy, E = mc2. A Calutron is a sector mass spectrometer that was used for separating the isotopes...

on loan from the United States Treasury were used in the making of the calutron magnets during World War II due to wartime shortages of copper. Aluminum...

known as calutrons were developed by Ernest O. Lawrence and used for separating the isotopes of uranium during the Manhattan Project. Calutron mass spectrometers...

included both 1200 mm and 600 mm separators. Tarmiya was the location of 20 calutrons used to enrich uranium to 35%, situated in two buildings on the site....

Oppenheimer (center) with part of a calutron at Berkeley (date unknown)...

Radiation Laboratory's 60-inch cyclotron. Furthermore Lawrence invented the calutron (California University cyclotron), which was industrially developed at...

an alternative approach to electromagnetic separation from Lawrence's calutron method, used for the purpose of separating the fissile uranium-235 isotope...

contributing to the project. It has been rumoured that he visited the Calutron project. He wrote that his scientific research was motivated by his desire...

product of which was around 23% 235U. Finally, this material was fed into calutrons at the Y-12. These machines (a type of mass spectrometer) employed electromagnetic...

electromagnetic enrichment of uranium using their experience with cyclotrons. The calutrons (named after the university) became the basic unit of the massive Y-12...

Atomic vapor laser isotope separation Australian Atomic Energy Commission Calutron Nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear power Makarov, Grigorii N. (2015-07-01). "Low...

Trading. Iraq used an overlooked method, electromagnetic separation (calutrons), to enrich uranium. It's interest in electromagnetic separation started...

and were given a tour of the Y-12 National Security Complex's historic Calutrons (used to separate the uranium 235 for Little Boy, the first atomic bomb...

(1984), India (1994), and Japan (1996). Australian Atomic Energy Commission Calutron Chemical reaction by isotope selective laser (CRISLA) Gaseous diffusion...

The Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where mass spectrometers called calutrons had enriched uranium for the Manhattan Project, was redesigned to make...

atomic bomb, but it could provide slightly enriched feed for the Y-12 calutrons and the K-25 gaseous diffusion plants. It was estimated that the S-50...

Diffusion pumps used on the Calutron mass spectrometers during the Manhattan Project, visible as black cylinders in the upper half of the image...

Project on 23 September 1942. He visited Berkeley to look at Lawrence's calutrons, and met with Oppenheimer, who gave him a report on bomb design on 8 October...