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She was promoted to operations technician on April 21. While the plant has several qualified operations technicians, Collier is the first associate technician in the entry level program to complete the training and qualifications requirements and be promoted to operations technician.</p> USEC requires operations technicians at ACP to have a minimum of three years of process operator experience in the chemical, nuclear, power generation or pharmaceutical industries or U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program experience.

The first new centrifuge component tests began in 2003 and the first tests of a full-size centrifuge began in 2005. These centrifuge tests were conducted in specially equipped test stands in Oak Ridge.

For the first time in history, uranium in nuclear warheads from the former Soviet Union is transformed into LEU for use in fabricating fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. The first shipments of LEU derived from Russian HEU arrive at USEC’s Portsmouth, Ohio plant. Shipment #1 arriving on June 23 consists of 16 cylinders holding 24 MT of LEU derived from 0.786 MT of HEU. Shipment #2 consists of 12 cylinders holding 18 MT of LEU derived from 0.59 MT of HEU.

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