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Y-12 Alpha Calutron

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The Alpha Calutron video shows the world's only Alpha Calutron magnets located in Building 9731 at the Y-12 National Security Complex, the first building completed on the site early in 1943. The calutrons were used to separate the first isotopes other than uranium.

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07 ISOTOPE AND RADIATION SOURCES45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSEALPHA CALUTRON MAGNETSMANHATTAN PROJECTURANIUM-235Y-12

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2011-09-23. Y-12 Alpha Calutron. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1363791

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