Isotopic fractionation process of uranium

Claim 1

A NEW AND IMPORVED METHOD FOR EFFECTING ELEVATION IN ISOTOPIC PROPORTION, WITH RESPECT TO AT LEAST ONE ISOTOPE, OF URANIUM INITIALLY ISOTOPICALLY COMPRISING A LIGHTER AND A HAVIER ISOTOPE, WHICH COMPRISES FORMING FROM SAID URANIUM AN AQUEOUS, ACIDIC SOLUTION OF URANOUS AND URANYL IONS EACH IN SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION, SUBJECTING THE URANOUS AND URANYL IONS BOTH IN SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION IN SAID SOLUTION TO THE ACTION OF AN ELECTROLYTIC CURRENT PASSED BETWEEN AN ANODE AND CATHODE, THEREBY INDUCING SAID URANOUS AND URANYL IONS TO ELECTROLYTICALLY MIGRATE TOWARD THE CATHODE, WITH THE ELECTROLYTIC MIGRATION OF THE URANOUS IONS BEING CHARACTERISTICALLY AT A FASTER VELOCITY THAN THAT OF THE URANYL IONS, WHILE PASSING A STREAM OF AQUEOUS, ACIDIC ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION FROM THE CATHODE TOO THE ANODE AT A VELOCITY BETWEEN THE CATHODIC ELECTROLYTIC MIGRATIONAL VELOCITIES OF THE FASTER URANOUS ION AND SLOWER URANYL ION, THEREBY WASHING URANYL IONS TOWARD THE ANODE WHILE THE URANOUS IONS MAKE HEADWAY UPSTREAM IN MIGRATING TOWARD THE CATHODE, CONSEQUENTLY CONCENTRATING URANOUS IONS TOWARD THE CATHODE AND URANYL IONS TOWARD THE ANODE, AND THEREWITH CONCOMITANTLY CONCENTRATING SAID LIGHTER URANIUM ISOTOPE TOWARD THE ANODE AND SAID HEAVIER URANIUM ISOTOPE TOWARD THE CATHODE, AND THEREUPON SEPARATELY RECOVERING AT LEAST ONE OF THE PREFERENTIALLY-ISOTOPICALLY-ABUNDANT PORTIONS OF THE URANIUM SOLUTION RESULTINGLY OBTAINING NEAREST EACH OF SAID ELECTRODES.