The HAGA radial-separating-nozzle centrifuge process for uranium enrichment

Nuclear energy will be the main source of modern energy supply. This brings the enrichment of uranium into the focus of interest. The big advantages of the HAGA process are: low investment cost, low power requirement, low production cost and small number of centrifuges. This process employs under vacuum a kind of internal cascading in the separating element. The centrifugal forces are used for compression and not for separating. The separating effect is brought about by complicated reciprocal action of separating nozzles, formation of vortex, rotation of the gas and shock waves. (orig.)