With extra funding in the budget signed Friday by President Trump, the Department of Energy has authorized construction to begin on another phase of Tennessee's biggest building
project.
Work will soon begin on building the main process building, the salvage and accountability building and the process support facilities to support the $6.5 billion Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The new plant, which is scheduled for completion and production by 2025, will replace an early-Cold War plant with a
more efficient and safer facility for conducting highly-enriched uranium operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge.
"This is a great example of our efforts to keep projects on schedule and to be good stewards of taxpayer resources," Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a statement Friday.
