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pfdietz on Sept 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos

The issue, as I understand it, is that even slight vibration mixes the UF6 enough to ruin things. Getting the centrifuges to rotate absolutely smoothly is difficult.

kaba0 on Sept 28, 2021 [–]

Compared to very finely controlled explosions to all meet in the center with high enough velocity and accuracy, it is trivial.

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