DOE Defense Nuclear Facilities All Defense Nuclear Facilities
fall under the ownership and jurisdiction of the Department of
Energy. Click the site names on the map below to see detailed
descriptions. |Location||18 miles northwest of Cincinnati, Ohio|
|Website||Fernald Closure Project| |Primary Function||Former
Uranium processing plant| Fernald (Harrison, OH) - The Fernald
Preserve is located on the site of the former Feed Materials
Production Center, a uranium processing facility that produced
high-purity uranium metal products as the first step in
America’s nuclear weapons production cycle. The site’s
production mission began in 1951 and continued until 1989, when
production operations ceased and Fernald’s mission changed to
environmental remediation. The comprehensive environmental
remediation and ecological restoration of the site was completed
in 2006. Currently the site is under observation to ensure
remediation efforts remain effective, and is open as a nature
preserve.