A separation plant was built in Kirkenes and the company decided to transport all ore from the mine to the port by rail.
Twenty years ago, the company built a separation plant where pipelines landed on the coast just south of Bangkok.
But if hit, the separation plants could take weeks or months to repair.
It is desirable to have the highest possible selectivity towards one product to minimise the need for separation plants.
Because uranium hexafluoride releases small quantities of corrosive fluorine, the separation plants were built with special materials.
A large portion of the sewerage flows as waste into streams, and separation plants.
By July 1952 the separation plant was being used to separate plutonium and uranium from spent fuel.
Early plans called for the construction of two separation plants in each of the areas known as 200-West and 200-East.
Today Saudi Aramco has 58 separation plants, which are crucial to the transportation of oil.
Increasingly, Saudi Aramco's oil installations, including its separation plants, are run by computers.