Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility

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Located 3 km northeast of Metropolis, Illinois there is a uranium conversion facility. 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 UF-6. Across the river in Paducah, Kentucky lies a gaseous diffusion plant. 37.171768° N 88.757039° W

ConverDyn, a general partnership between affiliates of Honeywell and General Atomics, is the exclusive agent for conversion sales from the Metropolis Works.