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Platapus · 08-14-08, 07:19 PM

Two references I have in my nuke library at home that discuss the shortage of Uranium in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. However these two references to not reference the RDS-220 specifically.

"Cost of Uranium Concentrates to the Soviet Union" CIA 1973 (declassified in 1994)

"Enriched Uranium vs. Plutonium: Proliferant preferences in the choice of fissile material" by Joel Ullom 1994

Most of my nuclear references are in my office which I will check tomorrow when I get to work.

Just a quickie.

Uranium for the Soviet Union Nuclear program was supplied primarily from Romania though the SOVROM-CUARTT enterprise. This supply was stopped in 1961 due to political issues.http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/index.h.../chapter1.html

This lead to the Soviets starting their Acid In Situ Leaching industry, in 1961 as a way of increasing their domestic production of Uranium. I imagine that this switching from imported Uranium from Romania to developing a new procedure accounted for the shortage I remember reading about (and am still looking for the citation)

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,373 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Two references I have in my nuke library at home that discuss the shortage of Uranium in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. However these two references to not reference the RDS-220 specifically. "Cost of Uranium Concentrates to the Soviet Union" CIA 1973 (declassified in 1994) "Enriched Uranium vs. Plutonium: Proliferant preferences in the choice of fissile material" by Joel Ullom 1994 Most of my nuclear references are in my office which I will check tomorrow when I get to work. Just a quickie. Uranium for the Soviet Union Nuclear program was supplied primarily from Romania though the SOVROM-CUARTT enterprise. This supply was stopped in 1961 due to political issues.http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/index.h.../chapter1.html This lead to the Soviets starting their Acid In Situ Leaching industry, in 1961 as a way of increasing their domestic production of Uranium. I imagine that this switching from imported Uranium from Romania to developing a new procedure accounted for the shortage I remember reading about (and am still looking for the citation) __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right. Last edited by Platapus; 08-14-08 at 07:56 PM.