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| | USEC Facilities |
 | | The Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, is the only operating uranium enrichment facility in the United States. |
 | | Enrichment at Paducah originally was limited to low levels, and the plant served as a "feed facility" for other defense plants in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Piketon, Ohio, where the enriched uranium was processed. |
 | | That mission changed in the 1960s, when Paducah, along with its sister plant in Piketon, began to enrich uranium for use in commercial nuclear reactors to generate electricity. |
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