Isotope separation
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Sorting atoms by mass shouldn't be a hard problem for advanced AP systems. Single molecules have already be weighted with tuning forks of todays (2014) technology. A question is how much throughput will be possible.
The capability of filtering for radioactive isotopes:
- is nice cleaning air when there's contaminatiion for whatever reason
- poses considerable security risks due to the emerging high level radiation sorces that can potentially arrive at a critical mass BOOM! The high dilutedness of natural radioactivity may make that unpractically long but there are easily accessible unnatural sources like thrium dioxide glasses.
Prime suspects for filtering is Radon - a noble gas. 14C and stuff from nuclear fission accidents like iodine-131, caesium-134 and caesium-137 accumulate in dust (?) they are easy to filter but harder to enrich.
