High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant is a facility located in McCracken County, Kentucky, near Paducah, Kentucky, that produces enriched uranium, including weapons-grade uranium, for the United States atomic energy program and US nuclear weapons program. The plant is now operated by United States Enrichment Corporation, a subsidiary of USEC Incorporated, a publicly traded corporation (NYSE: USU).The plant was opened in 1952 as part of a U.S. government program to produce highly enriched uranium to fuel military reactors and produce nuclear weapons. The primary mode of enrichment was the gaseous diffusion of Uranium hexaflouride to separate the lighter fissile isotope, U-235, from the heavier non-fissile isotope, U-238. Operations at the Paducah plant are ongoing.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.