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  2. Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. K-25 - Wikipedia

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    On 27 February 2020, the K-25 History Center, a 7,500-square foot museum opened at the site. The museum is a branch of the American Museum of Science and Energy and features hundreds of original artifacts and interactive exhibits related to the K-25 site. [117] [118] [119]

  4. National Veterans Memorial and Museum - Wikipedia

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    The former Franklin County Veterans Memorial in 2005. The current museum occupies the same location. The site along the west side of the Scioto River near the Discovery Bridge on Broad Street was originally home to the Franklin County Veterans Memorial, [2] which originally opened in 1955 [3] and was demolished to make way for the museum in early 2015, [4] by S.G. Loewendick & Sons. [5]

  5. Radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant

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    One of four example estimates of the plutonium (Pu-239) plume from the 1957 fire at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. The Rocky Flats Plant, a former United States nuclear weapons production facility located about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Denver, caused radioactive (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries. [1]

  6. Depleted uranium - Wikipedia

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    Natural uranium contains about 0.72% 235 U. Depleted uranium has lower mass fractions—up to three times less—of 235 U and 234 U than natural uranium. Since 238 U has a much longer half-life than the lighter isotopes, DU is about 40% less radioactive than natural uranium.

  7. The Weird and Wonderful World of Radioactive Glassware ... - AOL

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    According to The Glass Museum, the glow-in-the dark glassware is believed to have been invented by glassmaker Josef Riedel, who used uranium to color glassware in his factory in Bohemia in the mid ...

  8. Uranium mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Uranium production began in 1958, from open-pit and in situ leach mines. Uranium production stopped in 1999, but restarted in 2004. [75] By 2006, three mines were active: Kingsville Dome in Kleberg County, the Vasquez mine in Duval County, and the Alta Mesa mine in Brooks County. 2007 production was 1.34 million pounds (607 metric tons) of U 3 ...

  9. Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program - Wikipedia

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    The Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) is a United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) project to manage and cleanup environmental contamination that resulted from early United States Atomic Energy Commission activities.