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To: craig crawford who wrote (329)	6/25/2001 2:47:52 PM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 1643

June 22, 2001, 9:38PM Nuclear fuel glut forces layoffs of uranium processing workers chron.com Associated Press PIKETON, Ohio (AP) -- In the coming months, Marybeth Hamel and hundreds of her co-workers at one of the nation's last two uranium enrichment plants will lose some of the best-paying jobs in a region long plagued by high unemployment. U.S. Enrichment Corp. says it can no longer afford to operate the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, a massive facility the government built in the 1950s to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and submarines, because of low prices caused by a market glut for nuclear plant fuel. Production stopped last month, and this month layoffs of nearly a quarter of the plant's 1,700 workers began. The rest will remain to handle contract work and maintain equipment. At its peak in the 1980s, the plant employed more than 3,000 people. The company will keep a sister plant in Paducah, Ky., open and it will buy highly enriched Russian uranium from that country's decommissioned nuclear warheads.