Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

A lease to build the first U.S.-owned, privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the country was signed in western Kentucky on Tuesday against a backdrop of containers holding depleted tails of uranium hexafluoride – some covered in rust.

A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.

A western Kentucky site was among the four tabbed by the Department of Energy Thursday to be potential future homes of “cutting edge data center and energy generation projects.”

A company aiming to open the world’s first commercial laser uranium enrichment plant in western Kentucky took a key step over the weekend.

The U.S Department of Energy is exploring the possibility of building artificial intelligence data centers and infrastructure at 16 federally-owned sites, including the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in far western Kentucky.

After more than a decade of development, the world’s first commercial laser uranium enrichment facility is one step closer to becoming a reality in far western Kentucky.

A multibillion dollar federal contract was recently awarded to a group of companies for work on the Department of Energy sites at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, the Lexington field office and a former nuclear fuel enrichment plant in southern Ohio.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that a newly completed scanning facility at the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant will allow for safer handling and disposal of old processing equipment used in the site’s ceased uranium enrichment operations.

Kentucky lawmakers are taking steps to bring nuclear power to the state, but the process won’t be quick.

Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce is receiving $2 million in grant funding from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management to study future possible uses for the site of the former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant.