说明AEC-70-3703 Westinghouse Electric Corporation's new uranium fuel fabrication plant was licensed by the AEC in 1969. Shown is a view of the plant at Colombia, South Carolina, located on a 1,115-acre site and employing 600 persons. It is the first Westinghouse plant to convert uranium hexafluoride -- the gaseous form in which uranium comes from AEC enrichment facilities -- into uranium dioxide powder. Operations include fabrication of special alloys into positioning grids for nuclear reactor fuel, and compaction of the powder into cylindrical fuel pellets. Credit: Westinghouse Electric Corporation
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