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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 ...
Paducah plant history on Centrus site; Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Deactivation Project, Home Page (US DOE) U.S. Department of Energy's Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office - or pppo.energy.gov Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine; Uranium Enrichment Current Issues, USEC Paducah and Portsmouth plants, USA.
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 DOE issued a Final Request for Proposal for the new Portsmouth Decommissioning Contract to be performed at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site.
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.
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 ...
At the time of their construction in the early 1940s, the gaseous diffusion plants were some of the largest buildings ever constructed. [citation needed] Large gaseous diffusion plants were constructed by the United States, the Soviet Union (including a plant that is now in Kazakhstan), the United Kingdom, France, and China. Most of these have ...
It was then shipped to the US, where it was enriched at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant near Piketon, Ohio. HEU was then flown back to the UK in RAF aircraft. [105] In 1994, with the Portsmouth plant about to close, the treaty was amended with the US requirement to "provide" uranium enrichment services changed to one to "arrange" them. [76]