1. But low-enriched uranium can be processed to make high-enriched uranium. 2. Over lunch, Compton pleaded with Edward Mallinckrodt of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. to process uranium. 3. The corporation, an obscure government-owned concern, processes uranium for nuclear bombs and various nonlethal uses. 4. The department has acknowledged for years that the plants, especially the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, also processed uranium with some plutonium in it. 5. The plants would process the uranium in a way that officials hope could help pay for itself. 6. Thousands of workers were employed by the plants during the decades that the recycled uranium was processed. 7. The plant processed uranium. 8. The uranium would be processed, then used as fuel. 9. It also pledged not to process enriched uranium in order to extract weapons-grade plutonium during this period. |
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