It's not as if any large number of American jobs would be lost; uranium processing is highly automated.

In any case, the Energy Department is generating many new jobs as it moves to clean up five decades of pollution from military uranium processing and weapons manufacturing.

That report referred to a secretive Iranian entity called the Green Salt Project, which worked on uranium processing, high explosives and a missile warhead design.

His most animated comments concerned reports that the nuclear agency's inspectors had identified a secretive Green Salt Project, which worked on uranium processing, high explosives and missile warhead design.

The Secretary of Energy announced the phase-out of all uranium processing.

The cylinders are filled with a poisonous radioactive uranium compound, the leftover of years of uranium processing for nuclear bombs, submarine propulsion reactors and civilian power plants.

Mr. McKnight's company is trying to persuade the Texas Department of Health to loosen restrictions governing uranium processing.

The Green Salt Project (also known as the "Project 1-11") is an alleged secretive Iranian entity focusing on uranium processing, high explosives and a missile warhead design.

TNT and uranium processing were done on this site.

During the boom, the nation's second largest uranium processing mill was completed just outside Moab in 1956, employing more than two hundred workers.