2005/10/17 by R. Annou, Annou, R.
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Fusion materials and technologies #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Medical Physics (physics.med-ph) #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph) #physics.med-ph #physics.plasm-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0510156
2 pages
arxiv created 2005/10/17 · openalex publication_date 2005/10/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A plasma based isotopic separation method is proposed. Isotopes of different masses get separated during plasma expansion. Relying on Gurevichs (A.V.Gurevich, L.V.Pariiskaya and L.P.Pitaevskii, Sov.Phys.JETP, 36,274 (1973)) plasma expansion into a vacuum model, the enrichment factor has been calculated. For t =15 (t being the normalized time), an increase of the relative abundance of 30% is expected.