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Ohio nuclear processing plant to close
Washington (UPI) Jun 26, 2008 The U.S. Department of Energy says it has given Restoration Services Inc. a contract for assistance in decommissioning an Ohio nuclear facility. The contract requires the Oak Ridge, Tenn., woman-owned company to provide technical services for the remediation, decontamination and decommissioning of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant at the Energy Department's site in Piketon, Ohio. The contract is valued at approximately $67 million over five years -- a three-year base period with the option to extend it for another two years, officials said. The department said the contract is the first of three that will start the decontamination and decommissioning process, which will eventually lead to the closing of the plant in the coming decades. The site is a 3,714-acre federal reservation in south-central Ohio. Officials said the plant was constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission during the early 1950s to enrich the fissionable U-235 isotope from natural uranium to various product concentrations, including weapons-grade uranium. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Britain to sign nuclear deal with energy-poor Jordan
Amman (AFP) June 25, 2008Britain will sign a nuclear deal this week with energy-poor Jordan, which is struggling to find alternate resources to generate electricity and desalinate water, the British embassy said Wednesday. |
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