Sequoyah Fuels Corporation
Sequoyah Fuels Corporation owned and operated a uranium processing plant near Gore, Oklahoma. The company was created in 1983 as a subsidiary of Kerr-McGee. In 1988 it was sold to General Atomics.[1]
Uranium processing plant
The plant is located near
The plant was operated under
In 2008 a company named International Isotopes said it would buy equipment and intellectual property from the Sequoyah Fuels Corp plant. The equipment would be used in a new location. It would be used for converting depleted uranium hexafluoride to depleted uranium tetrafluoride.[1]
The 1986 Sequoyah Corporation Fuels Release in Oklahoma
On January 4, 1986, Sequoyah Fuels Corporation experienced a rupture which killed 26-year-old worker, James Harrison and hospitalized 37 of the 42 onsite workers.[4] The American Journal of Public Health describes the plant as having "never fully recovered" from the accident.[5]
Another accident involving the release of UF6 occurred in 1992. The plant ceased production operations in 1993 and was decommissioned.[5]
See also
- Church Rock uranium mill spill
- Uranium mining in the United States
- Kerr-McGee
- General Atomics
- Uranium hexafluoride
References
- ^ a b Yurman, Dan (2008-06-19). "UF6 Deconverter Plans First New U.S. Plant" (PDF). Fuel Cycle Week. 7 (283). Retrieved 2009-10-03.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b See Kerr-McGee article for citations
- ^ Although exact date of KMNC formation is unknown to author, it was at least the early 1970s, and before that would have been simply KMC.
- PMID 17666688.
- ^ a b Doug Brugge, et al, "The Sequoyah Corporation Fuels Release and the Church Rock Spill", American Journal of Public Health, September 2007, Vol, 97, No. 9, pp. 1596–1597.