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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1976
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1973
Harold K Forsen, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jersey Nuclear-Avco Isotopes, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for generating and accelerating ions in a vapor by use of relatively polarized laser radiation and a magnetic field. As applied to uranium isotope enrichment, a flowing uranium vapor has particles of the U.sub.235 isotope type selectively ionized by laser radiation and the ionized flow is subjected to a transverse gradient in a magnetic field. The magnetic field gradient induces an acceleration on the ionized particles of U.sub.235 which deflects them from their normal flow path toward a collecting structure. High magnetic field and corresponding high ion accelerations are achieved without loss in ionization selectivity by maintaining a polarization between the applied laser radiation and magnetic field which minimizes Zeeman splitting of the uranium energy states.