A 215,000-square-foot nuclear fuel plant got its frame, walls and roof finished in Tennessee, built to press uranium into billiard-ball spheres at 700,000 a year for up to 11 reactors, and the machines that do the pressing still have to move indoors

A 215,000-square-foot nuclear fuel plant got its frame, walls and roof finished in Tennessee, built to press uranium into billiard-ball spheres at 700,000 a year for up to 11 reactors, and the machines that do the pressing still have to move indoors

Back in August, we covered a factory going up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built to press uranium into billiard-ball-sized spheres called pebbles. At the time, most of the story lived on paper. The building itself was a steel skeleton with a fresh license and a very long to-do list. That building is…