Sequoyah Fuels Corporation - Wikipedia
WEBSequoyah Fuels Corporation owned and operated a uranium processing plant near Gore, Oklahoma. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Kerr-McGee. In 1988 it was sold to General Atomics. [1]
Kerr-McGee Cimarron Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Site in Oklahoma…
WEBOct 14, 2021 · The Atomic Energy Commission awarded Kerr-McGee a $9.6 million contract to produce fuel rods for experimental nuclear reactors using plutonium instead of uranium. The plant was built twenty miles outside Oklahoma City on a 900-acre site next to an existing uranium plant.
Nuclear Power | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
WEBThe Cimarron plants permanently shut down in 1976, and in 1988 Kerr-McGee sold the Gore facility to General Atomics. After continuing difficulties and incidents the Gore plant closed in 1993. At the end of the twentieth century …
Gore | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
WEBIn 1967 Kerr-McGee purchased fifteen hundred acres three miles east of Gore and built a plant to convert uranium oxide into uranium hexaflouride gas, which was then shipped to a plant (then Kerr McGee's Cimarron facility north of Oklahoma City) to make fuel rods for nuclear reactors.
Uranium remains in Logan County groundwater decades after nuclear …
WEBFeb 2, 2024 · That was five years ago when KOCO first investigated the contaminants at two Oklahoma facilities once owned by the Kerr McGee Chemical Corporation. Five years after that interview, a plan has yet to be finalized to …
Kerr-McGee Corporation -- Company History
WEBCreating further negative publicity for the embattled company, Kerr-McGee's nuclear-fuel processing plant in Gore, Oklahoma, was cited by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 15 health and safety infractions between 1978 and 1986.
Kerr McGee Cimarron Plant, Oklahoma - clui.org
WEBKerr McGee Cimarron Plant, Oklahoma. This plant, located in north central Oklahoma, once made plutonium pellets for nuclear reactor fuel rods. It is famous as the site where Karen Silkwood worked and was exposed to radiation that threatened her life.
Kerr-McGee Corporation | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History …
WEBIn 1952 Kerr-McGee became the first oil company to mine uranium and subsequently became a leader of Oklahoma's nuclear power industry. Plants were maintained near Cushing, Crescent, and Gore. By 1989 the company had closed its …
Kerr-McGee - Wikipedia
WEBIn 1968 the company started construction on what would become the Sequoyah Fuels Corporation plant in Gore, Oklahoma. In 1970 the plant started turning yellowcake uranium into uranium hexafluoride. In 1987 it began producing depleted uranium tetrafluoride using depleted uranium hexafluoride as input. In …
Sequoyah Fuels Gore Plant | The Center for Land Use Interpretation
WEBA uranium processing plant near the town of Gore, in eastern Oklahoma, originally operated by Kerr McGee. It opened in 1970, as one of only two non-government plants in the nation processing uranium hexafluoride for the nuclear industry.