United States Enrichment Corporation

In the meantime, USEC continued to operate the Paducah (Ky.) Gaseous Diffusion Plant to meet order book requirements, albeit the economics of that process was turning south because of the high energy requirements of the gaseous diffusion process and rising energy costs. For a commercial plant, the ...

All three gaseous diffusion plants — Paducah, Ky., Portsmouth, Ohio, and Oak Ridge — were operating at capacity with long-term contracts for their entire output. .... In about 2003, USEC began to re-established a team of gas centrifuge experts to deploy a commercial gas centrifuge enrichment plant.

"We have great workforce initiatives, but we can always do more," said Paducah Mayor Brandi Harless, who attended Thursday's meetings. "We can dive deeper into ... The meetings included an Energy and Environment Cabinet update by U.S. Department of Energy contractors on USEC clean-up efforts.

PADUCAH, KY – On Oct. 19, up to 214 will be laid off from the Department of Energy Gaseous Diffusion Cleanup Site in Paducah. That day is when Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership will take ... Key says the list was successful after the USEC plant closed. “We were successful in getting all of those workers ...

“I can't believe I won this house,” said Chadwell, a retired lab technician from the United States Enrichment Corporation in Paducah. “I looked up at the television and my name was on the screen.” Chadwell and her husband, John, bought raffle tickets Saturday for the 12th annual St. Jude Dream Home ...

Letters were mailed Tuesday to people working at the Department of Energy site at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion plant about a possible layoff of up to 214 employees. The contract with the Fluor Federal Services Paducah Deactivation Project and LATA-Sharp Remediation Services (LSRS) will ...

Paducah, Kentucky, is home to USEC, a Department of Energy uranium enrichment facility that operated for 50 years until being decommissioned in 2013. Just across the Ohio River lies the Honeywell corporation's Metropolis Works, the nation's only uranium conversion plant. Former State Sen.

In the more immediate future, Carroll said the USEC site (United States Enrichment Corporation owned PGDP for around 20 years. In 2014, they returned the facilities to the Department of Energy Environmental Management) is an ideal location for a research facility in developing nuclear energy and ...

The United States Enrichment Corporation emerged from Chapter Eleven Bankruptcy with a new name after completion of its restructuring plan today. The business enriched uranium at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant before it closed last year. $530 million in debt (originally due next month) forced the ...

WASHINGTON — The only American-owned plant for enriching uranium, a cold war relic near Paducah, Ky., will be shut down next month, its operator ... The announcement was made by USEC, the nuclear operator formerly known as the U.S. Enrichment Corporation, which was spun off from the federal ...