Fission Product Gas Release in Burst Region of Uranium Monocarbides

Uranium enrichment in a thermally driven countercurrent gas centrifuge is studied theoretically on the basis of dander's separation theory and the short-bowl flow solution proposed recently by Sakurai and Matsuda. The separation factor is computed and compared with experimental results by Groth. Agreement of the computed results with experiment is fairly good, except for very low feed rates. Further improvements are discussed.