Wake Up & Smell the Uranium Hexafluoride Gas
Atom’s Blog Fluorine was essential to the Manhattan Project. The U.S. couldn’t make The Bomb without it. Elemental fluorine is mixed with uranium to make a volatile gas – uranium hexafluoride (UF6). UF6 is called “hex” in the nuclear weapons industry – one atom of uranium surrounded by six atoms of fluorine. Fluorine gas is…