Name: HEU-UF6 production plant
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Location: Pelindaba
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Subordinate to: AEC
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Primary function: Uranium conversion
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Uranium conversion plant.
Name: U3O8 (yellow cake) to UF6 conversion plant
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Location: Pelindaba
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Subordinate to: AEC
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Primary function: Uranium conversion
Description: By the end of the 1960s, South Africa was producing uranium tetra fluoride (UF4), an intermediate product in hexafluoride conversion, which facilitated the production of uranium hexafluoride (UF6) on a laboratory scale in the early 1970s. In 1975 a small UF6 production plant was authorized to operate at Pelindaba, which began producing UF6 on an industrial scale the following year, becoming fully operational in 1978. The facility was closed in 1998
[Key Sources: J.D.L Moore, "The Development of South Africa's Nuclear Capability," in South Africa and Nuclear Proliferation, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987), 93-94].
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