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The National Enrichment Facility (NEF) is a nuclear facility for the enrichment of uranium associated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The plant uses a gas centrifuge technology known as Zippe-type centrifuges. It is located 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Eunice, New Mexico. [1]
Active uranium mining stopped in New Mexico in 1998, although Rio Algom continued to recover uranium dissolved in water from its flooded underground mine workings at Ambrosia Lake until 2002. [9] Currently (April 7, 2014), there are 12 uranium mines that are either in the process of licensing or actively developing in New Mexico. [10]
New Mexico was a significant uranium producer since the discovery of uranium by Navajo sheepherder Paddy Martinez in 1950. Uranium in New Mexico is almost all in the Grants mineral belt, along the south margin of the San Juan Basin in McKinley and Cibola counties, in the northwest part of the state. [46]
Orano is now hiring for its multibillion-dollar uranium enrichment facility planned for Oak Ridge, set to be the largest of its kind in the U.S. The French nuclear fuels company recently posted 20 ...
The Department of Energy will acquire the low-enriched uranium, or LEU, generated in the U.S. through either new enrichment facilities or projects that Feds announces contracts for U.S.-sourced ...
The uranium for conventional reactors is enriched up to 5% and HALEU is uranium enriched between 5-20%. Highly enriched uranium is anything more than 20% and is used in weapons or naval submarines.
Radiation sign at Ambrosia Lake uranium mining area, New Mexico. By 1982, approximately 111 acres (0.4 km 2 ) of radioactive tailings were left from almost 25 years of uranium extraction. Wind and rain spread the material over an area of 230 acres (0.9 km 2 ).
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 ...