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Stupid question: why the hell are tens of thousands of centrifuges needed to enrich uranium?

The answer appears to be that only extremely high speed centrifuges can accomplish it, and those have to be small or else the forces would be too great. And so you need a lot of them to get any significant quantity.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifug...

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