21. The Lockheed matter arose from the cleanup of the U . S . Government gaseous diffusion plant in Paducah, Kentucky. 22. -- Tennessee's Oak Ridge compound, which includes the K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant , Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Y-12 Plant. 23. The Department of Energy report does not specify how many Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers developed cancer or other diseases. 24. The way the employees tell it, the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant sometimes operated as if Homer Simpson were running the place. 25. -- Workers at the Paducah ( Ky . ) Gaseous Diffusion Plant who were exposed to plutonium and other radioactive materials. 26. That will leave the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky as the only U . S . producer of enriched uranium. 27. In 1953 the Federal Government chose Pike County as the location for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant , designed to enrich uranium. 28. A third Beta process building, 9204-3, was authorized in May 1944 to process the output of the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant . 29. A gaseous diffusion plant was built at Capenhurst, near Chester and started production in 1953 producing low enriched uranium ( LEU ). 30. At the time of their construction in the early 1940s, the gaseous diffusion plants were some of the largest buildings ever constructed.
