Ohio inventions and firsts · Company innovation · 1954
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Piketon
Groundbreaking was November 18, 1952; operations began in 1954 and the plant was fully online in early 1956. It enriched uranium, first highly enriched for weapons and Navy reactors, then low-enriched for power plants, until it stopped in May 2001. Cleanup followed.
At a glance
- Year
- 1954
- Company
- US Atomic Energy Commission
- Place
- Piketon, Pike County ZIP 45661 · Piketon · Pike County
Why it matters
One of three US gaseous diffusion plants and a main source of Pike County jobs from the 1950s.
Sources
Confidence. Medium: the main facts were confirmed, but some details (often an address or ZIP code) were not.