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Article: Bush Choices May Save Paducah, Ky., Uranium Plant, Union Leaders Say.
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- August 20, 2001
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 20--Union leaders say the future of Paducah's 1,500-employee uranium enrichment plant and its broad economic outreach is in the hands of the Bush administration.
They say they hope White House officials will decide by September or October whether the plant will continue as the nation's sole producer of enriched uranium that is used by nuclear power plants. If not, the country will depend solely on foreign uranium mostly coming from Russia in a deal brokered several years ago to foster nuclear disarmament.
"The bottom line is the plant here is at risk," said Philip ...