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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant is a facility located in Scioto Township, Pike County, Ohio, just south of Piketon, Ohio, that previously produced enriched uranium, including highly enriched weapons-grade uranium, for the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the U.S. nuclear weapons program and Navy nuclear propulsion; in later years, it produced low-enriched uranium for fuel for ...
Before its downsizing and final cessation of uranium enrichment on May 31, 2013, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant consumed about 3,000 megawatts of electricity at peak operation. [10] Power for the Paducah gaseous diffusion plant came from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). In 2012 the majority of the TVA grid was generated by coal fired ...
In November 2002, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in nearby Piketon, Ohio, was recognized as a Nuclear Historic Landmark by the American Nuclear Society. It served a military function from 1952 until the mid-1960s, when the mission changed from enriching uranium for nuclear weapons to producing fuel for commercial nuclear power plants ...
The demolition of part of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon is scheduled to be completed at the end of this year, Flour-BWXT announced at the commissioners meeting on Monday.
The DOE issued a Final Request for Proposal for the new Portsmouth Decommissioning Contract to be performed at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Fluor-BWXT (FBP) will be offering public tours of the former gaseous diffusion plant in Piketon this summer. Summer tours return to PORTS site in Piketon ...
The only other such facility in the United States, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio, ceased enrichment activities in 2001. [ 5 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Since 2010, the Ohio site is now used mainly by AREVA , a French conglomerate , for the conversion of depleted UF 6 to uranium oxide .
Bechtel Jacobs was replaced as the environmental remediation contractor for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant site in Piketon in 2005, after DOE awarded a new contract to LATA/Parallax Portsmouth, LLC, a joint small business venture of Los Alamos Technical Associates (LATA) and Parallax, Inc. [2] [3] Bechtel Jacobs involvement at the ...