We continue the amazing broader history of gaseous diffusion as envisioned by Gordon Fee and prepared by Steve Polston, who was at one time the manager of the Paducah (Ky.) Gaseous Diffusion Plant and ...

Uranium enrichment is a critical process that increases the concentration of Uranium-235, essential for both nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons. Various methods exist for enriching uranium, ...

In the 1940s, the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant was built in unprecedented secrecy as part of the Manhattan Project. Its purpose was to provide enriched uranium for the world’s first atomic bomb, ...

Sharing knowledge of the best approaches to deactivating process buildings is one of the ways the two Portsmouth Paducah ...

Last July a consortium of non-U.S. companies and U.S. utility affiliates announced plans to build a new uranium enrichment facility in the U.S. The consortium, Louisiana Energy Services (LES), hopes ...