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August 6, 2025, 12:00PMNuclear News

Uranium hexafluoride cylinders stand in a cylinder yard at the Paducah site. (Photo: DOE)

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced it has signed a lease with General Matter for the reuse of a 100-acre parcel of federal land at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky for a new private-sector domestic uranium enrichment facility.

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