Fuel cycle plants at this site, as listed in the IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database: what each plant does, its scale and design capacity, the years it operated, its current status and who operates it.
1 facility: 1 decommissioned.
Facility
Type
Scale
Design Capacity
Operated
Status
Operator
Plant 7 (Hex Reduction Plant)
Conversion to UF4
Commercial
0 t HM/year
1954–1956
Decommissioned
Source: IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database (NFCFDB), as of 2026-10-13.
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39.2928, -84.6824
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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: Wikipedia: Fernald Feed Materials Production Center.
The Fernald Feed Materials Production Center was a uranium metal production plant in Crosby Township, Hamilton County, and Ross Township, Butler County, Ohio, about 20 miles northwest of Cincinnati. It covered about 1,050 acres and refined uranium for the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
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Construction began in May 1951, the pilot plant started operating in October 1951, and National Lead Company of Ohio won the contract to operate the plant. Plant 9 began operating in October 1954. Westinghouse took over operations on January 1, 1986. The plant stopped production in 1989 and was listed as a Superfund site on November 21, 1989. Fluor Fernald was awarded the cleanup contract in 1992 and completed its work on October 29, 2006. The site was renamed the Fernald Preserve in 2007.
