Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility
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Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility, a uranium conversion facility, is located 3 km northeast of Metropolis, Illinois. The plant, Honeywell Specialty Chemicals in Metropolis, Illinois, has a nominal capacity of 12,700 metric tons of uranium per year. The plant manufactures a variety of products, but about 80 percent of the plant's work involves refining raw uranium ore into uranium hexafluoride. Across the river in Paducah, Kentucky lies a gaseous diffusion plant.
ConverDyn, a general partnership between affiliates of Honeywell and General Atomics, is the exclusive agent for conversion sales from the Metropolis Works.
[edit] External links
- ConverDyn's corporate website
- Official facility website
- More indepth description from GlobalSecurity.org
Coordinates: 37°10′18″N 88°45′25″W / 37.171768°N 88.757039°W
