Investigation of the dissociation of uranium hexafluoride gas at room temperature in pulsed infrared and ultraviolet laser fields

An investigation was made of the dissociation of uranium hexafluoride gas at room temperature in pulsed infrared (λ≈16μ) and ultraviolet (λ≈34μ) laser fields. Under the selected experimental conditions (on exposure of UF₆ and a UF₆–H₂ mixture to infrared and infrared + ultraviolet radiation), no isotopic selectivity was observed to within the accuracy of the mass-spectrometric analysis of the residual UF₆ in the cell after irradiation.