An abandoned uranium enrichment complex is being eyed as suitable land for an airport in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
After decades of failed attempts to build an airport in Oak Ridge, the Community Reuse Organization of East Tennessee recently unveiled plans to study the feasibility of building a general aviation airport at the former K-25 uranium enrichment plant, according to a story at WBIR.com:
“Oak Ridge is a hilly region, so finding an area that would be flat and 6,000 linear feet was kind of difficult in the past,” said CROET President Lawrence Young. “Because [the K-25 plant] was a large industrial complex, it is flat.”
