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Find jobs at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) is a facility located in McCracken County, Kentucky, near Paducah, Kentucky that produced enriched uranium from 1952 to 2013. It is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The PGDP was the only operating uranium enrichment facility in the United States from 2001 to 2010. The Paducah plant produced low-enriched uranium, originally as feedstock for military reactors and weapons, and later for commercial nuclear power fuel.

The gaseous diffusion plant covers 750 acres (300 ha) of a 3,556 acres (1,439 ha) site. The four process buildings cover 74 acres (30 ha), and consumed a peak electrical demand of 3,040 megawatts.

DOE leased the facility to a publicly held company, USEC, from the mid-1990s. USEC ceased operations in 2013 and returned the facility to the Department of Energy for decontamination and decommissioning.