PADUCAH, KY – From 2001 to 2010, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant was the only nuclear enrichment plant in the United States. Back then, it was operated by the United States Enrichment Corporation, which filed for bankruptcy in 2013. The plant shut down.
On my way into the plant on August 5, 2025, after taking a bus down a two-lane road, I saw the green sign, surrounded by overgrown grass and sagging telephone wires, reading “US DEPT. OF ENERGY GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT.”
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