The element of the week is—you guessed it—uranium, and this week Bill and his crew take us through the engineering that goes into enriching it, i.e. into producing uranium metal with a much-higher-than-natural abundance of the lighter U-235 isotope. This is the technology that produces the "higher octane" uranium used to make nuclear power and also, unfortunately, the really "high octane" version used to make the simplest type of nuclear bomb.
a chemistry teacher thinks outloud about life in and out of the classroom
