Download or read book Study of the Prospects for Heavy Water Production Via Laser Isotope Separation. Final Report, 1 April--30 September 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rationale for ''cheap'' heavy water is discussed with emphasis on the economic, safety, and arms control implications of the widespread adoption of pressure-tube, heavy water moderated and cooled CANDU reactors, and variations thereof. Three classes of vibrational-photochemical laser processes are considered in detail, i.e., hydrogen halide-unsaturated hydrocarbon addition reactions, isotopically selective photoadsorption and photodesorption, and selective two-step molecular dissociation. General remarks are made concerning the economic viability of these techniques vis a vis hydrogen sulfide/water chemical exchange (the GS process).