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Method for Calculating and Optimizing a Cascade for Separating a Mixture of Isotopes with Impurities

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A method is proposed for calculating and optimizing a cascade separating a mixture of isotopes with impurities. The approach developed optimizes a cascade with arbitrary mixture composition and a large difference in the masses of the components being separated. The application of this method to the separation of a binary mixture of uranium isotopes with impurities is examined. The properties of cascades optimized with respect to the criterion of minimum total flux are investigated. Their correspondence to R cascades with symmetric steps is analyzed. A comparison is made with optimal cascades with no impurities. It is shown that multicomponent potentials can be used to estimate the separation efficiency for a binary mixture of isotopes with an impurity.

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  1. Ural Polytechnical Institute, Ural State Technical University, Ural, Russia

    V. A. Palkin & R. S. Komarov

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Translated from Atomnaya Energiya, Vol. 98, No. 4, pp. 293–300, April, 2005.

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Palkin, V.A., Komarov, R.S. Method for Calculating and Optimizing a Cascade for Separating a Mixture of Isotopes with Impurities. At Energy 98, 284–289 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-005-0207-5

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