Valindaba
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Valindaba site, also known as Pelindaba East or Y-plant,[1] is an experimental uranium enrichment plant, located 35 km west of Pretoria, Gauteng province, South Africa.
History
Y-Plant was completed in 1975 by the Uranium Enrichment Corporation of South Africa (UCOR) and started producing HEU in 1978.[2] It was shut down for almost two years following an accident in 1979, but was back in production by 1981 and since then has produced all the fuel required by SAFARI-1[2]
Y-Plant ceased production on 1 February 1991 and was dismantled the same year.[3]
The plant used the Helikon vortex separation process, a process developed in South Africa, to accumulate the uranium 235 isotope.
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