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- noun Plural form of
ultracentrifuge .
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Examples
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The Swiss leader noted that the files contained "detailed construction plans for nuclear weapons, for ultracentrifuges to enrich weapons-grade uranium as well as for guided missile-delivery systems."
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Centrifuges, especially the ultracentrifuges that are necessary for enrichment as I understand it, are not all that straightforward to come by…
Firedoglake » Of Last Throes, Enrichment and Mickey Mouse Watches 2006
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Sao Paulo, in an area where the Brazilian navy is developing a nuclear submarine project and building ultracentrifuges to enrich uranium.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Couchepin stated that the files were shredded because 'There were detailed construction plans for nuclear weapons, for gas ultracentrifuges to enrich weapons-grade uranium as well as for guided missile delivery systems' in the files and Switzerland, as a non-nuclear state that has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, should not possess them.
Blather.net newsfeed 2009
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Couchepin stated that the files were shredded because 'There were detailed construction plans for nuclear weapons, for gas ultracentrifuges to enrich weapons-grade uranium as well as for guided missile delivery systems' in the files and Switzerland, as a non-nuclear state that has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, should not possess them.
Blather.net newsfeed 2009
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