Show Uravan Mill Expansion Set For Next Year The uranium processing mill o of United States Vanadium company at Uravan Colo already one of the thel largest on the Colorado Plateau ts Is undergoing a further large expansion slop sion In capacity with new construction construction construction tion already in progress according to Kenneth Rush president of this division of Union Carbide and Carbon Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon corporation Rush announced I the expansion plans following the signing of a contract with the Atomic Energy commission The additional mill capacity at Uravan is expected to be completed d dearly early In the fall of 1956 EngineerIng Engineer Engineer- Ing work Is already well under way and construction contracts are currently currently currently cur cur- being placed Pending completion com come of the new facilities the present plant will continue to be operated at full capacity The great Increase in mine pro pro- production production on n the plateau has made it necessary to expand most of the thel processing mills the area At present there are nine mills in operation The Uravan mill is in the heart of one of the most active uranium mining sections in the country United States Vanadium company one of the country's earlIest earlest earliest earl earl- Iest est producers of uranium concentrates concentrates concen concen- for the governments government's atomic energy plants has another major processing mill at Rifle Colo j The concentrates from these mills are converted into feed materials used in In the production of uranium at the giant gaseous diffusion plants at Oak Ridge Tenn Paducah Padua cah cab Ky and Portsmouth Ohio i I Union Carbide and and Carbon core cor- corl potation was wu responsible for the design engineering and operation of the K K 25 25 plant at Oak Ridge I the first gaseous diffusion unit built during the war This plant has been I in continuous operation under Union Carbide management ever since production started early in 1915 Four other massive diffusion units have since been added to the I original plant Union Carbide engineers engineers en I also have done the process development and engineering design de de' design I sign for all the gaseous diffusion plants and additions built since 1946 Including the new Paducah separation plant which the torpor corpor- atlon also operates I In 1947 the government asked Union Carbide to take over opera opera- tion of ot the electromagnetic plant at Oak Ridge Ride formerly used to ate ate lato uranium atoms It now houses special atomic energy production and research operations I |