Ontario's power glut means possible nuclear plant shutdowns

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34. The only disagreement....

Edit: I see, I referred to it as the Pantex plant. My bad. Point stands, this paducah facility is ALSO part of the atomic fuel food chain, and feeds both civilian and military material needs.
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The only disagreement was on Pantex. "Pantex" is the name of a particular production plant - the one and only final assembly / disassembly plant.

The Paducah, Kentucky plant and the Portsmouth, Ohio plant are both gaseous diffusion plants to enrich fuel for reactors.

Actually, the military production reactors don't require enrichment. The reactors at Hanford were graphite-moderated, and the reactors at Savannah river were heavy water moderated. Graphite and heavy water are the ONLY TWO materials that can be used to moderate a reactor that runs on unenriched uranium. The Candian CANDU reactors are heavy water moderated and they run on natural uranium because Canada doesn't have an enrichment plant.

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