The Decommissioning of Portsmouth’s X-326
Demolition and disposal shifted into high gear this spring at the DOE’s former uranium enrichment plant in Ohio.
November 14, 2022, 3:00PMRadwaste Solutions
In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Energy constructed the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in rural southern Ohio to enrich uranium, alongside two other federally owned and managed facilities in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky. The Cold War-era plant was built as a self-sufficient industrial city with more than 400 buildings and facilities centered around three massive gaseous diffusion process buildings that could enrich the level of the uranium-235 isotope for nuclear fuel in the defense and energy sectors.
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