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'''Uranium processing''' is the only way to use [[uranium ore]] and the first source of [[uranium-235]] and [[uranium-238]] that is available to the player. The process has a 99.3% chance to produce 1 uranium-238 and a 0.7% chance to produce 1 uranium-235.  
'''Uranium processing''' is the only way to use [[uranium ore]] and the first source of [[uranium-235]] and [[uranium-238]] that is available to the player. The process has a 99.3% chance to produce 1 uranium-238 and a 0.7% chance to produce 1 uranium-235.  

Revision as of 16:37, 16 December 2017

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Uranium processing

Recipe

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12
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10
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0.007
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0.993

Total raw

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12
+
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10

Prototype type

recipe

Internal name

uranium-processing

Required technologies

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Produced by

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Uranium processing is the only way to use uranium ore and the first source of uranium-235 and uranium-238 that is available to the player. The process has a 99.3% chance to produce 1 uranium-238 and a 0.7% chance to produce 1 uranium-235.

Initiating the kovarex enrichment process

The kovarex enrichment process acts as another source of uranium-235, however 40 uranium-235 are needed to initiate it. Due to the 0.7% probability of receiving 1 U-235 per uranium processing cycle, it is expected that it takes 5714 uranium processing cycles to receive 40 U-235. However, this is not guaranteed, and there is only a 52% probability to actually get 40 U-235 after 5714 uranium processing cycles. Further mathematical exploration of this can be found here.

History

See also