The price of the enrichment will be much more expansive than the raw material. But to what extent, I don't know. But, the quantity that has to be separated of Ni is smaller than the one of boron given that they have a natural proportion of 5/1 of B10 to B11 against 20/1 of Ni 62+64, although in the case of the ecat, it doesn't have to be very pure.
2012/1/21 John Milstone <[email protected]> > OK, does anyone have a ballpark figure for isotopically enriched Boron? > > I agree that it seems reasonable that the difficulty of separating the > isotopes of Boron and Nickel would be comparable (but I don't know). The > only problem using Boron as an analogy is that the raw material is almost > 150 times as expensive as Nickel. That might make any direct comparison > doubtful. > > I've found several companies selling isotopically enriched Nickel, but > none of them provide a price online. And, I'm very reluctant to start > calling/writing these companies looking for such information, since I > don't want to get on any more Government lists than I'm already on. > > As Sheldon from "The Big Bang Theory" said (paraphrasing), "It seems that > if you hack in to a National Defense super-computer, and try to buy > Uranium-235 on Craigslist, the NSA calls your Mother!" > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> > *To:* John Milstone <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, January 21, 2012 10:40 AM > > *Subject:* Re: [Vo]:I`ll just leave this here > > In the specific case of Rossi, he wants to exclude nickel below 62, but > purity is not a necessity, but an optimazation. So, if he roughly excludes > most of what is bellow 62, that is good enough. Given that most of Ni is 58 > and 60, he can determine a threshold of, say, Z=62, more or less, and > roughly separates around this value. It doesn't need to bu pure and the > weight difference is quite big, about the same of what is needed to separte > boron 10 from 11, even so, not so precise. I think you should look for the > costs of enrich boron estimate from there. > > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ [email protected]
