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Houston G. Wood III, a retired Oak Ridge physicist considered to be "among the most eminent living experts" on gas centrifuges reviewed the tube question in August 2001 (see 1950s) and concluded at that time that it was very unlikely that the tubes had been imported to be used for centrifuges in a uranium enrichment program.He later tells The Washington Post in mid-2003 that "it would have been extremely difficult to make these tubes into centrifuges," adding that it stretched "the imagination to come up with a way."He also says that other centrifuge experts whom he knew shared his assessment of the tubes. [Washington Post, 8/10/2003]
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