Equations are obtained that describe the characteristics of the azimuthal motion and radial expansion of a plasma jet under the action of a rotating transverse magnetic field of a dipole configuration in a longitudinal static magnetic field. The analysis was carried out both in the multicomponent approximation and on the basis of MHD equations taking into account the Hall effect. Based on the obtained dependences of the azimuthal and radial ion velocities on the magnetic field values, the separation characteristics of the direct-flow plasma centrifuge are estimated for the separation of a two-component binary mixture simulating spent nuclear fuel. It was shown that the concentration of the heavy uranium-plutonium component in the product flow can be increased from the initial 96 to 99.8% with a fuel component extraction of 0.87.

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