The Department of Energy (DOE) announced in a Tuesday press release that it will lease a 100-acre parcel of federal land at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant to General Matter — a California-based uranium enrichment company — for the construction of the new facility. General Matter CEO Scott Nolan told the West Kentucky Star that “at one point during the Cold War, ninety percent of all uranium enriched in the world was enriched in the U.S. — much of it in Paducah.” “The President has called for industry to start mining and enriching uranium in America again, as well as an expansion of domestic uranium conversion capacity,” Kratsios wrote, underscoring the administration’s push to rebuild the full nuclear fuel cycle within the U.S. without relying on foreign imports.
Author: Krrishh Kamal
Published at: 2025-08-06 22:24:51
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