| | The Smyth Report: Chapter XI - Electromagnetic Separation Of Uranium Isotope |
 | | Each unit was to be a complicated electromagnetic device re-quiring high vacuum, high voltages, and intense magnetic fields: and a great deal of research and development work would be required before complete, large-scale, units could be constructed. |
 | | The construction of this unit was approved at about the same time that the first plant units were ordered so that experience with it had no influence on fund-amental design, but it was finished and operating by April 1943, that is, six months before the first plant unit. |
 | | For example, an electromagnetic unit that could produce a gram a day of 40 per cent pure U-235 from natural uranium could produce two grams a day of 80 per cent U-235 if the concentra-tion of U-235 in the feed material was twice the natural concen-tration (1.4 per cent instead of 0.7 per cent). |
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