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Wednesday Evening, iogust 12, ECOmmCAL ENRICHMENT METHOD CLAIMED FOVND South Africa May Benefit From New Uranium Process JOHANNESBURG, South near Cajie Town. oxide. This corporation ricn (AP) South Africa is likely to itart a joint venture of the mines added an element of surjirise toiabout two years with thp first the intemationa! a i mielectricity flowing about 1978. Prime Ministerj gouth Africa has not yet John Vorster says his scientists the nuclear nonproHfera- haw fmnA a unique process agreement. But indicated it making ennched uramum.

ajpians to do so. critical element in nuclear ixw- Mining Bypmdiict Until statement, the! country can produce ura- expands. and shares its amcmR them. Its current profits are about $24 million a year. Some experts think tnat as gold is depleted and and third- generation atom power plants come on stream Some Scientists Said Skeptical Of Report to enrich uranium and thereby obtain the ingredients for atomic weapons or atom plants was believed limited to the United States, Britain, France, Soviet Union and Communist China.

litiw-Kry The discovery frees Soutfi Africa from any threat that its nuclear grtwth can be by outsiders. And there apparently wcHild be nothing to stfjp other medium-fiize and small fmro getting on the bamiwagon to secretly build atomic weapons. Vorster hinted that the te- f-ret new method was within the fmancial means tri modest nations. The prime minister an- TKHjnced project in typical fashion. After delivering mma he irjld Parliament the Atomic Board succeeded in devel- rifJing a new process for uranium as well as the associated and they presently on the building of a pilot frfant the rnrlchment of uranium based this of the enarmous costs of uranium rtchment, only the United Stales of America, the United Kmg- ciism and in the Western have such plants Tnlqiin South African which IS unique in is to the stage where it estimatM that under African a lar can be with plants in the Urnnium Knrifh- i'otp has liw'en allotted Uriinium is by in- CfirnentratKin at im-215.

the capa- of underfoinf atomic chain rr ThiJi dkftu'iilt ftnd thp key 235 n.ft^irnl is to whirh ff rm Hilk of natural uranium, Since they be separated by fi.i-' S. t.ike of thP 1 gttpr of rian.um-?3S at- Uraruum converted to a iji fii- to out much of the hi'nvwr atoms, iirsoiitm eiu With Uranium-lTfi. Mrtbod rrt mt Bnfish-I Much-German uses a gas centnfuge In to a crpam which rrt-am away fn.m heaviw hy whirling It at high A chair- m.in of the aays a principle is invn'iviyl ui the thought it otit and il it out evory calcula- ti-jn he to.1 an of dearth lit detail. V.irstr; was with ism. Hntiih hinted that might 6er gam mtn thf ih A vuilh African questjoned v.

rncili-xl wtiuld I il.y ff rrantiuii I'riwliMtr S-iijth Africa thf wTids third uranium Kficr the United Slates Canada. The atihty to en- lit'h rcHly clearly co 1 tlic country into the ranks i)- itraicr said f4)3ec- ttve the farther of the process to the pful a- 1 of nuclear Only tltpn can it to our and the of AUtmic at Pelindaba, mar Pretoria, awl the mrlcnment plant will IfMated are built, A nuclear prmer utation was for nium at lower cost than most rather than byproduct. Uiv- others because It is largely a byproduct from gold mining. The Nuclear f'uels Corp. takes like gold, uranium has no price controls.

Increased demand for ura- uranium concentrate, known aslnium and enrichment services ready has 17 contracts in fix recovered by is expected in the late 1970s as countries extending to the year gold mines and converts It to nuclear production of electricity 12008. Found In 192S The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's enrichment service, launched on Jan. 1, 1969, al- Prof. George Bain of Amherst came across this dark col College In Massachusetts ored rock that was similar to chipped off two rocks at an East'some ctoomlde I found In Swa- Daggafontein gold mine 29 ziland.

I cleaned It up a bit, but years ago. The first uranium was found near Johannesburg in 1923 by Richard Cooper, an analytical chemist at a gold mine. "It was tlK)ught to be of purely scientific interest and nothing Cooper said recently. That started to change when'sis. it look like anything I It wM chance I could rcciUl.

I then tound It cnlppcd thoM rock, irom the In acid. mine and pure chance that the world would need uranium at that he says. Bain, now had been lent to South Africa before Pearl Har- Bain says respected geologists laughed at first whan he told them the rocks came from the Witwatersrand, or WTiite Waters Reef around Johannesburg. The only known African source then was the Conand I go. Witwatersrand uranium Is fluorescence was checked decided it had to be uranium.

A Geiger counter confirmed I u. 2 the mid-fifties that economic ex- hls decision. The data were filed achieved. South Af- and the rocks stored at Amherst has earned about $1 billion bor when It appeared the United I until America went to war. jfrtim the industry since it got States might need extra were brought out and dust-j rolling 15 ago.

als In time of war. He back! ed oft after Bain was assigned i Bain visited Johannesburg to a ton of rock samples for analy-jto the Manhattan Project which present his original samples to the first atom bomb, the Chamber of Mines. KILi.ED 176 Montana Man iSanit'd Top Elephant Hunter dnC-AiX) An arms John Ituhmiller fjf hy all (xlds the top eli'pliant hunter, althouiiii is nearwig age 10 BuhmilbT, H'lio first elejjhant until afti-r tie was years old, has run his total kill in the African Inish to 176 fl- ephants. 4 hunting has been in and hU largest bag was 81 in one trip. Three ran his total to I7b.

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