The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is a facility located in McCracken County, Kentucky, near Paducah, Kentucky that produces enriched uranium for nuclear power plants. The plant is now operated by ...

An aerial view of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, which the U.S. Department of Energy has been cleaning up for more than a decade A billboard near the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant ...

Since the massive uranium enrichment buildings at the K-25 site in Oak Ridge were demolished, the memory of the place has been left to the K-25 History Center and the thousands of people who worked ...

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 ...

IN view of the theoretical significance of the diffusion through one another of monatomic gases and diatomic gases, particularly when the diffusing gas is greatly diluted, it seems desirable to ...

Vina Colley, who once worked as an electrician at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, drives around the site. She was exposed to toxic and radioactive materials there, and has been battling ...

The first time the K-25 History Center opened was in February 2020. I was unable to be there as Fanny, my wife, and I had been invited to Vail, Colorado, for a very special “Roundtable” resulting from ...

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, ...

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, ...